150 Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

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.

Life is like being at the dentist. You always think the worst is still to come, and it is over already.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made.

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

The Americans are a very lucky people. They’re bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them.

The luxury of one’s own opinion.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night.