Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.