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.

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others