Bismarck quotes

   It is the lees left by Bismarck that still foul the cup.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  On the duplicity of international diplomacy as practised in the early 20c. Letter to President Roosevelt, Dec. Quoted in G M Trevelyan Grey of Fallodon (1937).

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons† Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

-Theodor Herzl
Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie' c le Vienna (1961), p.165.