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
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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.
Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made
I have wished to crush Rome that I might crush Christianity.
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.