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

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

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

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.