"The American is a man who is always in a hurry, always running, always trying to get ahead."

"I am not afraid of the storm, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"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."

"I know of no country in which the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and in which the passion for physical gratification is more general than in America."

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."