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

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.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are 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.