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

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Hounds follow those who feed them.

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.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.