“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”
“Eine hinreichend große Zahl von Menschen davon zu überzeugen, dass die Ursache all ihrer Kümmernisse irgendein feindseliges Element von außen ist, ist der älteste Trick im Handbuch des Populismus.”