A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

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

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.