Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, significantly and deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership. With that accomplished by 1871 he skillfully used balance of power diplomacy to preserve German hegemony in a Europe which, despite many disputes...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 April 1815
CitySchonhausen, Germany
CountryGermany
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
Better pointed bullets than pointed words.
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
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.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.