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

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

A really great man is known by three signs—generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Politics is the art of the possible.

God always looks after the fools and – and the United States.

Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided – that was the error of 1848 and 1849 – but by iron and blood.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night.

The luxury of one’s own opinion.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They’re bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.