Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCKUniversal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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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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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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