Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.