"It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong."
- Otto von Bismarck
"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood"
"the main thing is to make history not to write it"
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
"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 secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
"[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world."
"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best"
"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt."