If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.