This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.