Bismarck's Speeches and Letters
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“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”
Source: Bismarck's Speeches and Letters
Source: Correspondance Diplomatique De M. De Bismarck (1851-1859)
“I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.”
“If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”
“Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.”
“A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.”
“I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.”
“The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.”
“Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.”
“Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.”
“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.”
“There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.”
“Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.”
“A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.”
“Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.”
“There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.”
“Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.”
“Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.”
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.”