Quotes from Otto von Bismarck

Politics ruins the character.

Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak—it already knows how to ride.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions—that was the error of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.")

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.