The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.