Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

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

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

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

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

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.