Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

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.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

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

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.

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves