I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.