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 It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in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

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.

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.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

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