Otto von Bismarck Quotes

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Otto von Bismarck
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.
Otto von Bismarck
The king reigns but does not govern.
Otto von Bismarck
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
Otto von Bismarck
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Otto von Bismarck
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
The main thing is to make history, not to write it
Otto von Bismarck
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
Otto von Bismarck
Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.
Otto von Bismarck
Hounds follow those who feed them.
Otto von Bismarck
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
Otto von Bismarck
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
Otto von Bismarck
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
Otto von Bismarck
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
Otto von Bismarck
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
Otto von Bismarck
[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
Otto von Bismarck
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
Otto von Bismarck
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck
the main thing is to make history not to write it
Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood
Otto von Bismarck
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
Otto von Bismarck