"With a gentleman, I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud, I try to be a fraud and a half."

"It is not by speeches and majorities that the great questions of the day are decided, but by iron and blood."

"I am not a man of principles, but a man of expediency."

"I am not an optimist, but a fatalist."

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