"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

"The only healthy basis for a great state is national egoism, not romanticism."

"The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and resolutions of majorities, but by iron and blood."

"Man cannot create the current of events. He can only float with it and steer."

"I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those politicians who wanted something from other powers that they dared not demand in their own name."