Otto von Bismarck Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Believe, Political

• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Children, America, Political

• Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

  Otto von Bismarck

  Art, Politics, Next

• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Time, Mean, Blood

  Speech to the Budget Commission of the Prussian Diet, September 30, 1862.

• Politics is not an exact science.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Political, Politics

  Expression in the Reichstag in 1884, "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". Book by Ralph Keyes, 2006.

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Law, Political

• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Waiting, Political, Events

  "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.

• 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.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Agency, Government, Views

• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Funny, Mean, Men

• Politics is no exact science.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Science, Politics, Exact Sciences

• Politics ruins the character.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Character, Adversity, Politics

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