If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.
A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.