"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."

"The more extensive your acquaintance with the works of those who have excelled, the more extensive will be your powers of invention; and the more extensive your powers of invention, the more original …"

"The people are not strong: the people never can be strong. Their attempts at self-vindication will end only in their suffering and confusion."

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

"The unimpaired Purity of the Public Credit, the Maintenance of the Institutions of the Country, and the Increase of the Welfare of the People, are the three great objects of the Conservative Party."