There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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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 conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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