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

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

China will stay on the path of peaceful development.

-- Hu Jintao

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

-- Itō Hirobumi