"Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb."

"The prehistoric Germans never existed... they are an illusion of misguided scholars. The nonexistence of ancient Germans is perhaps the most important thing one can say about the barbarians of late an…"

"I try every day to challenge myself further, and I believe in doing this I slay the monster bit by bit. That's why being political is an essential part of my life. In the end, its all I have."

"Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it."

"Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual an…"