"The secret of success in politics is to be able to tell what is coming next and to be ready to meet it."

"The art of governing is not to let the people see how you do it."

"A statesman cannot create anything, he must wait and listen until he hears the footsteps of God sounding through events, and then spring and seize the hem of His garment."

"I shall soon be compelled to undertake the conduct of the Prussian Government. My first care will be to reorganise the army, with or without the help of the Landtag. ... As soon as the army shall have…"

"The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if the…"