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
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury ...
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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.