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

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

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

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

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

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it