Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.