Top 117 Quotes & Sayings by Otto von Bismarck - Page 2
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Great men have great dogs.
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
Politics is not a science...but an art.
Better pointed bullets than pointed words.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.
You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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.
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
Politics is no exact science.
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
The luxury of one's own opinion.
God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.
I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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