Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.