150 Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided – that was the error of 1848 and 1849 – but by iron and blood.

God always looks after the fools and – and the United States.

Politics is the art of the possible.

A really great man is known by three signs—generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

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

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