Politics is the art of the next best.
Politics is not an exact science.
[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
Hounds follow those who feed them.
Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.