All men are born equally free.

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

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

States Rights died at Appomattox.

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

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

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.