The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority resolutions — but by iron and blood.

Politics is the art of the possible.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

I regard all the world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

I see, and say nothing.

-- Elizabeth I of England

The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority resolutions — but by iron and blood.

-- Otto von Bismarck

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

-- Margaret Thatcher

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

-- Margaret Thatcher