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

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

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

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.