We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

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.

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

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

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