Otto von Bismarck

Politics ruins the character…

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth…

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the…

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making…

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

Politics is the art of the possible…

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it’s course. It must not look…

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

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

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

Politics is not an exact science…

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made…

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

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and…

Politics is the art of the next best…