Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic. - Otto von Bismarck

Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.

Haut doch die Polen, daß sie am Leben verzagen; ich habe alles Mitgefühl für ihre Lage, aber wir können, wenn wir bestehn wollen, nichts andres tun, als sie ausrotten; der Wolf kann auch nicht dafür, daß er von Gott geschaffen ist, wie er ist, und man schießt ihn doch dafür totd, wenn man kann.

I have always found the word Europe on the lips of those politicians who wanted something from other Powers which they dared not demand in their own names.

In looking back upon this situation, we have lamentable proof of the degree of dishonesty and cosmopolitanism to which political parties with us attained when actuated by party hatred. Something similar may have happened elsewhere; but I know of no other country where
the universal national feeling and love for the whole Fatherland offered so little resistance to the excesses of party passion as with us.