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.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.