The luxury of one's own opinion.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

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

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

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

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

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.