“Politics is not an exact science.”
“Politics is the art of the next best.”
“Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.”
“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.”
“A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.”
“Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.”
“I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.”
“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”
“A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.”
“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.”
“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.”
“When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.”