John Hay

“Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.”

“He never funked and he never liedI reckon he never knowed how.”

“He weren't no saint—but at jedgment On a man that died for men.”

“At my door the Pale Horse standsTo carry me to unknown lands.”

“The people will come to their own at last,—God is not mocked forever.”

“I think that saving a little child Than loafing around the throne.”