Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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 found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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