man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

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

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.