Life Has Taught Me To

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.

Only A Fool Learns From His Own Mistakes. The Wise Man Learns From The Mistakes Of Others.

The Statesman's Task Is To Hear God's Footsteps Marching Through History, And To Try And Catch On To His Coattails As He Marches Past.

Fools You Are Who Say You Like To Learn From Your Mistakes. I Prefer To Learn From The Mistakes Of Others, And Avoid The Cost Of My Own.

The Position Of Prussia In Germany Will Not Be Determined By Its Liberalism But By Its Power ... Prussia Must Concentrate Its Strength And Hold It For The Favorable Moment, Which Has Already Come And Gone Several Times. Since The Treaties Of Vienna, Our Frontiers Have Been Ill-designed For A Healthy Body Politic. Not Through Speeches And Majority Decisions Will The Great Questions Of The Day Be Decided - That Was The Great Mistake Of 1848 And 1849 - But By Iron And Blood (eisen Und Blut).