Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

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

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

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

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

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.