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.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.