“I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.”

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes we make the wrong choice, somewhere we deceive ourselves in matters of relationships, creating illusions, we are driven by something real.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

California’s beaches are actually super cold don’t be deceived.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.