Hounds follow those who feed them.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAn appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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