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Honesty Is The Best Policy, Says The Familiar Axiom; But People Who Are Honest On That Principle Defraud No One But Themselves.

Nobody But Radicals Have Ever Accomplished Anything In A Great Crisis. Conservatives Have Their Place In The Piping Times Of Peace; But In Emergencies Only Rugged Issue Men Amount To Much.

The Prosperity Which Now Prevails Is Without Parallel In Our History. Fruitful Seasons Have Done Much To Secure It, But They Have Not Done All. The Preservation Of The Public Credit And The Resumption Of Specie Payments, So Successfully Attained By The Administration Of My Predecessors, Have Enabled Our People To Secure The Blessings Which The Seasons Brought.

I Found A Kind Of Party Terrorism Pervading And Oppressing The Minds Of Our Best Men.

Whoever Controls The Volume Of Money In Any Country Is Absolute Master Of All Industry And Commerce.