Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.