Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. |
The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. |
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. |
The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. |
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. |
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy. |
... the privilege of creating and issuing money... is the government's greatest creative opportunity... [saving] the taxpayers immense sums of money... |
Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections. |
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. |
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. |
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. |
As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. |
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. |
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. |
Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be. |
