"I am not a man of principles, but a man of expediency."

"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."

"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."

"The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority resolutions—that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood."

"The only constant in politics is change."