John Tyler

“The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.”

“The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!”

“On the coming of that tremendous storm which for eight years desolated our country, Mr. Jefferson hesitated not, halted not.”

“My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.”

“Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.”