“How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read
“Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both
“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution
“The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.