It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

the main thing is to make history not to write it

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

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 secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

[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.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.

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

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.

Politics is not an exact science.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

The king reigns but does not govern.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.