"The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions... but by blood and iron."

"The only way to avoid mistakes is to gain experience, but experience is gained by making mistakes."

"The statesman's duty is to preserve the state, not to indulge in sentiment."

"The social insecurity of the worker is the real cause of their being a peril to the state."

"A generation that has taken a great war to its heart will always carry it within them."