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

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

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

If an establishment employing twenty thousand or more workpeople were to be ruined...we could not allow these men to hunger. We should have to resort to real State Socialism and find work for them, and this is what we do in every case of distress. If the objection were right that we should shun State Socialism as we would an infectious disease, how do we come to organise works in one province and another in case of distress—works which we should not undertake if the labourers had employment and wages? In such cases we build railways whose profitableness is questionable; we carry out improvements which otherwise would be left to private initiative. If that is Communism, I have no objection at all to it; though with such catchwords we really get no further.