"We Germans fear God, and nothing else in the world."

"Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic."

"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."

"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past."

"Politics is the science of the possible."