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

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Great men have great dogs.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.

Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

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

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

We have to either let go or suffer, because everything will eventually cease. And just because we love something, doesn’t mean it takes us with it.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Everything ceases to fade Leaving my soul all the pain.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.