The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Politics is not an exact science.