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.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.