"The less you know about how sausages are made and laws are passed, the better you'll sleep at night."

"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."

"Politics is the art of the possible, the science of the relative."

"A generation that has taken a great war for granted will never be able to appreciate the blessings of peace."

"It is not by speeches and resolutions that the great problems of the day are decided, but by blood and iron."