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The nation that has the schools has the future.
— Otto Von Bismarck
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A statesman ... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.
— Florence Nightingale
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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.
— Otto Von Bismarck
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
— Otto Von Bismarck
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
— Otto Von Bismarck
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
— Otto Von Bismarck
Lord takes care of babes, fools, and the United States.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
— Otto Von Bismarck
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
— Albert J. Nock
You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
— Otto Von Bismarck
[Government]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 Bismarck
I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen.
— Niall Ferguson
People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the next best.
— Otto Von Bismarck
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
— Otto Von Bismarck
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
— Otto Von Bismarck
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
— Otto Von Bismarck
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
— Otto Von Bismarck
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
— Otto Von Bismarck
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics ruins the character
— Otto Von Bismarck
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war
— Otto Von Bismarck
I have wished to crush Rome that I might crush Christianity.
— Otto Von Bismarck
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
— Otto Von Bismarck
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
— Henry Kissinger
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
— Otto Von Bismarck
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best
— Otto Von Bismarck
Hounds follow those who feed them.
— Otto Von Bismarck
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
— A.J.P. Taylor
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
— Otto Von Bismarck
God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
— Otto Von Bismarck
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Better pointed bullets than pointed words.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
— Otto Von Bismarck
God always looks after the fools and - and the United States.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
— Cory Doctorow
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
— Otto Von Bismarck
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
— Otto Von Bismarck
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.
— Henry Kissinger
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.
— 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
Politics is not a science ... but an art.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The main thing is to make history not to write it
— 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
Great men have great dogs.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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.
— Otto Von Bismarck
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves
— Otto Von Bismarck
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
— Otto Von Bismarck
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
— Otto Von Bismarck
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The luxury of one's own opinion.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
— Otto Von Bismarck
In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made.
— Otto Von Bismarck
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is not an exact science.
— Otto Von Bismarck