Otto Von Bismarck Quotes

the main thing is to make history not to write it

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

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

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

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

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

Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.