The Almighty has His own purposes.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

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

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her