He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.