Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

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

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