“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.”

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

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

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

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

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

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

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

Politics is not an exact science.

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

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

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

Politics ruins the character.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.