You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

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

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.