Salmon Portland Chase

“It came to me that 'In God We Trust' would be a good motto for our coins.”

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

“The way to resumption is to resume.”

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

“My agency in procuring the passage of the national banking law was the greatest financial mistake of my life.”

“True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.”

“The true way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”