Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
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Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.
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The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
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Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
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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.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
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You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
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man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
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God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.
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Great men have great dogs.
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