A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
Better pointed bullets than pointed words.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
The nation that has the schools has the future.
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.