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
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
Politics ruins the character.
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.
Politics is not an exact science.
The luxury of one's own opinion.
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Politics is the art of the next best.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.