Better Pointed Bullets Than Pointed Words.

Universal Suffrage Is The Government Of A House By Its Nursery.

No Civilization Other Than That Which Is Christian, Is Worth Seeking Or Possessing.

To Retain Respect For Sausages And Laws, One Must Not Watch Them In The Making.

One Can Put Some Trust In The Gratitude Of A Sovereign, And Also In That Of His Family; Under Certain Conditions, One Can Even Rely Upon It; But One Can Never Expect Anything From The Gratitude Of A Nation.

The Position Of Prussia In Germany Will Not Be Determined By Its Liberalism But By Its Power ... Prussia Must Concentrate Its Strength And Hold It For The Favorable Moment, Which Has Already Come And Gone Several Times. Since The Treaties Of Vienna, Our Frontiers Have Been Ill-designed For A Healthy Body Politic. Not Through Speeches And Majority Decisions Will The Great Questions Of The Day Be Decided - That Was The Great Mistake Of 1848 And 1849 - But By Iron And Blood (eisen Und Blut).