A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence

Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon können.

The politician has not to revenge what has happened but to ensure that it does not happen again.

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

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother's milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away.

I see in the whole no interest for Germany which would be worth even [...] the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer. Speech to the Reichstag 5 December 1876