Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
-
-
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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 -
The nation that has the schools has the future.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
Politics is the art of the possible.
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