Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPreventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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