Otto Von Bismarck Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoof-beats of the horse of history.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

The main thing is to make history not to write it.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Be polite; write diplomatically, even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable; the art of the next best.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood.

God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.

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