He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

For love of country, they accepted death.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.