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 BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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 BISMARCKPeople never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCKBeware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCKUniversal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWe Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAnyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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 BISMARCKWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKHounds follow those who feed them.
OTTO VON BISMARCK