War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

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.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.