To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.