We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

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.

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

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.

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