In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.