Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

The nation that has the schools has the future.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.