"I confess that I am not much in love with what is called 'progress' in our days."

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

"The most important of all human institutions is the family."

"The Americans are a people who are always talking about liberty, but they are also a people who are always ready to give it up."

"The American people are a people of shopkeepers, and they are always thinking of their own private interests."