"Politics is not an exact science, but an art."

"It is not by means of speeches and majority resolutions that the great issues of the day will be decided, but by iron and blood."

"You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves."

"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and grasp on to His coattails as He thunders past."

"The greatest enemy of any government is its own bureaucracy."