With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

The nation that has the schools has the future.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

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!

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

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.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.