There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

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.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

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.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.