History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of 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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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