The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThere is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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 BISMARCKAll treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNo civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKGreat men have great dogs.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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 BISMARCKWhat we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhen you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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