He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them.
Hounds follow those who feed them.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
Politics is no exact science.
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
The Balkans aren’t worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
With bad laws and good civil servants it’s still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can’t help.
I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.