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

"He who has once been a minister never quite ceases to be one."

"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best."

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

"Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of time decided — that was the great error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood."