If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.