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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWith a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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