Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

The elaborate financial interdependence of the modern world has grown up in spite of ourselves. Men are fundamentally just as disposed as they were at any time…

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

The more our commercial system gains in complication, the more does the common prosperity of us all come to depend upon the due performance of all contracts. C…