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

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

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

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best