This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

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.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

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