Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.