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

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

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

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Politics is not an exact science.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Politics ruins the character.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

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

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Politics is the art of the next best.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

No civilization other than that which is Christian is worth seeking or possessing.

People never lie so much as after a hunt during a war or before an election.

Love is blind friendship tries not to notice.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.