"Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience."
- Otto von Bismarck
"Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history."
"man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer"
"Hounds follow those who feed them."
"Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning."
"Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872"
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it"
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election."
"Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride."
"History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it."