| When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. |
| We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. |
| Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. |
| Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. |
| Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoof-beats of the horse of history. |
| Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. |
| Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. |
| Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience. |
| Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. |
| The main thing is to make history not to write it. |
| A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. |
| 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. |
| If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans. |
| Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable; the art of the next best. |
| The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood. |
| God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America. |
