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.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

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.

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

Great men have great dogs.

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

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