“I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.”

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”