A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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