The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAll treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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