A Little Caution Outflanks A Large Cavalry.

The Position Of Prussia In Germany Will Not Be Determined By Its Liberalism But By Its Power ... Prussia Must Concentrate Its Strength And Hold It For The Favorable Moment, Which Has Already Come And Gone Several Times. Since The Treaties Of Vienna, Our Frontiers Have Been Ill-designed For A Healthy Body Politic. Not Through Speeches And Majority Decisions Will The Great Questions Of The Day Be Decided - That Was The Great Mistake Of 1848 And 1849 - But By Iron And Blood (eisen Und Blut).

A Generation That Has Taken A Beating Is Always Followed By A Generation That Deals One.

I Have Never Lived On Principles. When I Have Had To Act, I Never First Asked Myself On What Principles I Was Going To Act, But I Went At It And Did What I Thought Fit. I Have Often Reproached Myself For My Want Of Principle.

Beware Of Sentimental Alliances Where The Consciousness Of Good Deeds Is The Only Compensation For Noble Sacrifices.

We Are Better Off Not Knowing How Sausages And Laws Are Made.