This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people...

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.