Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

There is no education like adversity.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.