… the Union can grow powerful only by fostering the manufacturing interest. This, Sir, I think the true American political economy. - Friedrich List

From the nation they draw all the benefits of civilisation, enlightenment, progress, and social and political institutions, as well as advances in the arts and sciences.

… I believe it to be a duty of the General Convention of Harrisburg, not only to support the wool growers and wool manufacturers, but to lay the root at the axe of the tree, by declaring the system of Adam Smith to be erroneous – by declaring war against it on the part of the American System – ...

… every nation which makes no forward progress sinks lower and lower, and must ultimately fall