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

Politics ruins the character.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

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

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.