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1. To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
2. A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
3. No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
4. Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
5. All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
6. There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
7. An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
8. A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
9. Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
10. Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
11. When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
12. I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
13. Politics is the art of the possible.
14. Politics is the art of the next best.
15. The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
16. The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
17. When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
18. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
19. Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
20. 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.