I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Great men have great dogs.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.