Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

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.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.