There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.