"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 the…"

"There is so much having to do in my life that I rarely get to want to do."

"It is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided — that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood."

"The greatest enemy of any government is the press. They print what they want, and they make people believe what they want."

"A good horse dies in its harness."