What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics ruins the character.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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