To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Quanity has it's own quality.

[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.