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
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
Great men have great dogs.
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Politics is the art of the next best.
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.
Politics ruins the character.
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.