I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

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.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

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

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History