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

"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best."

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

"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."

"The people are like children, they must be led by the hand."