I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics ruins the character.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Great men have great dogs.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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