My want of wealth is perhaps the least--why should I not say that I know it is the least objection in your mind?
My party?
Well, I shall become a leader of my party--and Republicans are white as well as Federalists.

It is not forgery or murder to detest Pitt and George the Third, or to believe in France! Is it so poor a thing to become a leader of a party that has gained an empire, that has put an end to the Algerine piracy, that has reduced the debt, that has made easier every man's condition, and that stands for freedom of thought and deed and advance of all knowledge?
Party! Now and then, even in Virginia, there is a marriage between the parties! My family--or my lack of family?
The fact that my father rolled tobacco, and that now and then I broke a colt for you ?" He smiled.
"Well, you must allow that I broke them thoroughly--and Goldenrod was a very demon! Pshaw! This is America, and once we had an ideal! For the rest, though I do not go to church, I believe in God, and though I have been called an unscrupulous lawyer, I take no dirty money.

Some say that I am a demagogue--I think that they are wrong.

I love your niece, sir, and more than that--oh, much more than that!--she says that she loves me.

She says that she will share my life.