150 Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

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

the main thing is to make history not to write it

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

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.

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Politics is the art of the possible,the science of the relative.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.