People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

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.

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

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.