Blood and iron.

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

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.