Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, significantly and deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership. With that accomplished by 1871 he skillfully used balance of power diplomacy to preserve German hegemony in a Europe which, despite many disputes...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 April 1815
CitySchonhausen, Germany
CountryGermany
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
The luxury of one's own opinion.
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.
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.
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).