All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

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

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

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.

Great men have great dogs.

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