I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.