God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

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

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

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

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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