The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

Great men have great dogs.

Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.