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

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?