Otto von Bismarck Government Quotations

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

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.