My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
The luxury of one's own opinion.
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.