Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress