Quotes by : Otto von Bismarck

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention....

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after....

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

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics ruins the character.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.....

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

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