Otto von Bismarck — "I am a man of peace, but I must fight for it."

"It is easier to criticize than to govern."

"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."

"Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be settled - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood."

"The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority resolutions—that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood."

"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."