Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.