"The most important of all political questions is the question of property."

"The Americans are a very peculiar people; they have a way of doing things which is entirely their own."

"I have seen in America the most perfect equality of conditions that can be imagined; and I have also seen the most profound inequalities."

"The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory."

"I am convinced that a great revolution is at hand, and that it will be more terrible than any that has yet occurred."