Politics is not an exact science.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

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

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!

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