I have always thought that if he had been a land agent, instead of a preacher, he could have sold the whole of Alaska and the adjacent icebergs in one Quadrennium.
"A Circuit Rider's Wife"
Corra Harris
If Kossuth had been spurned by the Abolitionists and Free- soilers, he would not have been accepted by the South; for there was not a Quadrennium from 1832 to 1860 when that section would have contributed to the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency with the weight of the Declaration of Independence upon his shoulders, as it came from his pen, had he been in existence and eligible to the office.
"Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1"
George Boutwell