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

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Politics is not an exact science.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

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