What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.