People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

Politics is no exact science.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

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

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

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.