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.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.