"The statesman's task is to read the signs of the times."

"The only way to avoid war is to be strong enough to deter it."

"It is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided — that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood."

"We Germans fear God, and nothing else in the world."

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