Otto von Bismarck Quotes

» When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

» Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

» When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

» Politics is not an exact science.

» Politics is the art of the next best.

» There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

» When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

» A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

» To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

» People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

» The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

» The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

» A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

» A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

» I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

» Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

» The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

» Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

» An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

» Politics ruins the character.

» All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

» No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

» When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

» Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

» Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

» Politics is the art of the possible.

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