People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPreventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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