Otto von Bismarck Quotes - Page 5

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

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

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

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

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

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

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

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

Politics is not an exact science.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Politics is no exact science.