Otto von Bismarck Quotes

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

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.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

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.