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

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

If you love something, set it free.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.