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 … - Otto von Bismarck

That which is imposing here on earth . . . has always something of the quality of the fallen angel who is beautiful but without peace, great in his conceptions and exertions but without success, proud and lonely.

Seien Sie außer Sorge, nach Kanossa gehen wir nicht, weder körperlich noch geistig.

Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.