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

There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

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

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 Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.