"We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world, and the fear of God is what makes us love and foster peace."

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election."

"Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of time decided — that was the great error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood."

"Gratitude is a dog's virtue."

"I am more afraid of the German professors than of the French army."