People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

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

The luxury of one's own opinion.

Politics is no exact science.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.