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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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