The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them