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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

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.

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

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.