Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Politics ruins the character.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.