Famous Quotes / Otto von Bismarck
29 Quotations by Otto von Bismarck
- 1. A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right b ...
- 2. A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
- 3. A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, m ...
- 4. An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
- 5. Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think har ...
- 6. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
- 7. Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
- 8. Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for n ...
- 9. I give that you may give.
- 10. I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
- 11. Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
- 12. Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- 13. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others
- 14. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
- 15. Politics is not an exact science.
- 16. Politics is the art of the next best.
- 17. Politics is the art of the next best.
- 18. Politics is the art of the possible.
- 19. Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
- 20. The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b ...