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

"The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that the only way to get anything done is to do it yourself."

"To retain the old is not to preserve it, but to destroy it."

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

"Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this."