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
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Politics is not a science...but an art.
The nation that has the schools has the future.
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
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.
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.