I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKOnly a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
OTTO VON BISMARCKHounds follow those who feed them.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
OTTO VON BISMARCKGovernment 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 BISMARCKHistory is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics 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 BISMARCKPreventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPeople never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCK