If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions … more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong, [it is] a geographical concept.

We will not go to Canossa.

Not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Politics is the art of the possible.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.