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

"I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother's milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away."

"In my politics, I may be attacked, but I only laugh about it. But when it comes to hunting, that's where the fun stops, that's where it gets serious."

"The life of a nation is the life of a single man. It is not measured by the number of years, but by the number of deeds."

"The greatest danger to Germany is a war on two fronts."