It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAnyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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 journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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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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