Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

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

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

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.