"I do not think that the white and black races will ever live in any country upon an equal footing. But I believe that they will remain in a state of hostility, unless they are separated."

"I am convinced that the greatest evil in the world is not war, but revolution."

"I think that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world."

"I have always believed that the most important thing for a nation is to have a strong government, even if it is not a free one."

"The taste for physical gratifications is everywhere on the increase; and it is a taste which, if it be not checked, will infallibly lead men to the most abject servitude."