The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

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

The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.