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.
Abraham LincolnThe Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
Abraham LincolnAs an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
Abraham LincolnNone seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
Abraham LincolnMy old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham Lincoln