A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPreventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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