"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."

"Man cannot create the current of events. He can only slightly alter its course."

"The greatest danger to Germany's future is not the French or the Russians, but the Germans themselves."

"A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at one end and a fool at the other."

"With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help."