With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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