오토 폰 비스마르크
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Politics is the art of the next best.
Politics is not an exact science.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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 journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it’s course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
사건을 일으켜서는 안된다. 그것이 일어날 때까지 기다려야 한다.
역사란 인쇄된 종이 조각에 불과한 것이다. 중요한 것은 역사를 만드는 일이지, 역사를 쓰는 일이 아니다.
비스마르크
청년이여 일하라. 좀 더 일하라. 끝까지 열심히 일하라.