Politics ruins the character.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.