"The secret history of the late distress is a lesson to all modern statesmen. Rest assured that in politics, however tremendous the effects, the causes are often as trifling."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our Constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad."

"All is race; there is no other truth, and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed."

"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."