I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

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.

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

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.