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.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

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

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.

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

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.

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