There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!