The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04

Winged Words and AphOrisms of the
Great Statesman.


Few men have said so much in few words
as Bismarck. These things show some of
his many sides. few of them are here
his speeches alone make a large volume.
Love is blind; friendship shuts the eyes,"
From Notebook of Youth.
In the tete-a-tete woman speaks aloud
to the man who is Indifferent to her, low to
the man she is beginning to love and keeps
silence with the man she loves Ibid. :
Il must marry-the devil take me.
feel lonely and forsaken, and this wild
damp weather makes me melancholy and
longingly prone to love."-From a letter
written in 1S47.
The great questions of the day are not
settled by speeches and the decisions of
maJorft1eS-that was the mistake of 1S4S and
1849-but by Blood and Iron. 1852.
The longer labor in politics the less is
my belief in human calculations "-lS64.
IL is good thing that we cannot change
our inclinations with our shirts, seldom as
we may do the latter."-1S45.
Much harm can be done in year and a
half, but in so short q time how little OF
good can be accompli hed!'-1ST.
You do not write politely enough for me-
Write like a politician, and in politics 1t is
not ones object to affront people. Write
systematically. Even in declaring war men
are ourteous."-Instructions to his press
secretary.
"Politeness as far as the last step of the
gallows, but hanging for all that. One can
afford TO be gruff only to ones friends, be-
ing convinced that they won't take it i'll.
How much sharper, for instance, is one
with ones own wife than with other
My power to work no longer equals my
ambition, but my ambition will belong to
your Majesty to my last breath. From
letter to William /, written in December,
I'VE Germans fear God and no one else
We seek to cultivate friendly relations, but
we run after no one. We dread war, but
against the Juror of Teutonicus no power
can stand. From speech in the Reich
stag, Feb. H. 1883.
..Art is gay and life serious. written on
a photograph presented to Pauline Lucca,
the singer.
IF ever again obliged to live as 1 once
did, without God, without you and the chill
dren, / do not see why should not cast this
life aside like a dirty shirt to his
This conflict of classes will never cease
To solve il is like trying 10 solve the prob
lem of squaring the circle. 1t is Utopian
dream of thousands OF years of millennium,
TO be realized only when men become
angels. spoken in an interview in April,
why should you want to retire?" once
] older than you and 1 can still mount my
Just SO. sire; that is the rule" was the
reply. The rider always holds out much
longer than the horse"
las for myself, existence has taught me
to forget many things and to get myself
forgiven a great many more. Written in
Count EnZenberG's photographic album.
Deprive me of my faith and you deprive
me of my country. If | were not a firm
Christian. II my faith did not rest on the
miraculous basis of a revealed religion, you
would not have in me federal chancellor
Biographer Busch relates that Bismarck
was once complaining that his career had
given him little personal satisfaction, or
added TO the happiness OF his family and
friends, when some one said:
You have made great nation happy"
Yes responded Bismarck. hut how
many other nations have made unhappy"