quotes by Otto von Bismarck

"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."
— Otto von Bismarck

"Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others."
— Otto von Bismarck

"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt."
— Otto von Bismarck

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war"
— Otto von Bismarck

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. "
— Otto von Bismarck

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
— Otto von Bismarck

"God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."
— Otto von Bismarck

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

"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
— Otto von Bismarck

"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."
— Otto von Bismarck

"Verfallen wir nicht in den Fehler, bei jedem Andersmeinenden entweder an seinem Verständnis oder an seinem guten Willen zu zweifeln."
— 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"
— Otto von Bismarck

"the main thing is to make history not to write it"
— Otto von Bismarck

"People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made."
— Otto von Bismarck

"The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier."
— Otto von Bismarck