"I am not a democrat, but I am not an autocrat either."

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

"It is easier to make a constitution than to make a pudding."

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

"The most important thing for a statesman is to make sure that he is not indispensable."