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

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

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

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 It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this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.

The way to resumption is to resume.

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