There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
OTTO VON BISMARCKUniversal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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