The only assurance of our nation’s safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
Be excellent and party on dudes.
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I’m part of thee.
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.