The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.