You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

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

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

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