I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.