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 never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.