Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.

[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.

[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.