An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

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.

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

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.