Politics is not an exact science.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

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

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

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.