I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.