The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

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.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.