Hounds follow those who feed them.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

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

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

Great men have great dogs.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).