A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThere is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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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 seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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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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