Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.