The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

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.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.