Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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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Politics ruins the character.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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