I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

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

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

All I have learned, I learned from books.