Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

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.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

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

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.