I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

When you acknowledge the audience's shadow you become their hero.

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.