"Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa."

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

"No one has a monopoly on wisdom."

"He who has once been a minister never quite ceases to be one."

"The statesman who is afraid to take responsibility will never achieve anything great."