When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWith a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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