10 famous quotes by otto von bismarck
- Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
- Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
- People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
- Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
- Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
- 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.
- Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.
- We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
- 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 great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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