General Sayings

I have conquered for myself, but I have conquered for Russia.

Take away the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and Bismarck would feel much more at home.

The three greatest follies of mankind are: love, ambition, and the desire to govern.

It is not possible to achieve great progress by violence. Indeed, it is by kindness and gentleness that progress is achieved.

I have conquered Jerusalem. Now I shall conquer the world.

The strong eat the weak. That is the law of nature.

Seek knowledge throughout the world, and thus strengthen the foundations of imperial rule.

We shall be merciless with both our enemies and our allies.

Where there is no revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.

The United States has no right to tell us what to do. We are a sovereign nation.

We must be hard, because the masses need to be hard.

I always cheer up immensely if anything is said to me that is particularly wounding, because I think, 'There is someone who need not be considered.'

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

The American people are not going to be stampeded by a bunch of wild-eyed, radical college students.

I don't think that any entirely civilized people can fight with the tremendous and joyous ferocity which characterizes the Zulu or Apache.

Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.

It is a fact that Jews are peculiar people, and they are always sticking their noses in other people's business.

Some of our people have been so indoctrinated that they can't think for themselves. They just follow the party line.

The French are a 'nation of calves'.