Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

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

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.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.