I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

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.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.