You can't destroy the Poles but if you give them power they'll destroy themselves.

I have always found the word "Europe" in the mouths of those politicians who wanted from other powers something they did not dare to demand in their own name.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. Speech to North German Reichstag (21 May 1869).

Power has only one duty: to secure the social welfare of the People.

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.