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.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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.

The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.