The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.