"I have been so much in the habit of acting for myself that I am sometimes apt to forget that I am not alone in the world."

"I have been a stranger to the joys of domestic life."

"If we mean to be a commercial people, or even to be secure on our Atlantic side, we must in a great measure possess our selves of the means of naval annoyance and defense."

"Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government."

"Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred."