In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.

The presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses.

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.