Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Great men have great dogs.

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

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.