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

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

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.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.