The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.