I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.