When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

• An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
• A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
• Politics is not an exact science.
• Politics is the art of the next best.
• Politics ruins the character.