Politics is the art of the possible.
[Die politik ist die lehre von möglichen.]
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussian statesman
Remark to Meyer von Waldeck (11 Aug 1867)
Quoted in Heinz Amelung, Bismarck-Worte (1918). There is no surviving first-hand account of his words.
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