"Faust complained that he had two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole legion."

"The greatest danger to Germany's future is not the French or the Russians, but the Germans themselves."

"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and grasp on to His coattails as He thunders past."

"The Americans are a people of children, for whom everything is a game."

"The best way to unite Germany is to give them a common enemy."