This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.