History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

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

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

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.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.