confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

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.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

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.