Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.