02UndatedThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and bloodOtto von Bismarck / quote ↗
04UndatedNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
05UndatedPolitics 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 / quote ↗
07Undated[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 / quote ↗
08UndatedPolitics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next bestOtto von Bismarck / quote ↗
09UndatedPeople never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
10UndatedFools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
11UndatedPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
12Undatedman cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steerOtto von Bismarck / quote ↗
14UndatedWoe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
15UndatedCrowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
16UndatedPeople never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
17UndatedLet us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
18UndatedHistory is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
23Undated(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
24UndatedTo retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.Otto von Bismarck / quote ↗
