Quotations From OTTO VON BISMARCK

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  Politics is not an exact science.

  Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian statesman. Speech, December 18, 1863, to Prussian legislature.
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  Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian statesman. speech, Aug. 1867, Berlin.
  
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  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 (1815-1898), Prussian statesman. speech, Sept. 30, 1862. Bismarck: Life and Works, vol. 4 (1878). "Iron and blood," or "blood and iron," were favorite expressions of Bismarck's....
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  Politics is the art of the possible.

  Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian statesman. remark, Aug. 11, 1867. Quoted in Complete Works, vol. 7 (1924). Almost equally famous is Bismarck's dictum, "Politics is not an exact science" (speech, Dec 18, 1863, to Prussian legislature).
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  Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

  Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898), German statesman. Marginal comment on a letter, November 1876, from the Russian Chancellor Gorchakov.