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.

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

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

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

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

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.