Salmon P. Chase

“No more slave States and no more slave territory.”

“An indestructible Union of indestructible States.”

“My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life.”

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”

“The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.”

“The way to resumption is to resume.”

“It is a maxim of universal application in finance, that, in a state of society in which the credit system prevails, an expansion of the currency is a precursor of a revulsion.”

“The true ground of the objection to the slave-trade is its injustice.”