A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

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

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

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.

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.