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.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

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

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.