“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”

“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”

“A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.”

“Politics ruins the character.”

“Politics is the art of the possible.”

“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”

“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”

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

“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.”

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.”

“Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ”