How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.
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
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
States Rights died at Appomattox.
All men are born equally free.
What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.