Otto von Bismarck Law Quotations

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.