I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
OTTO VON BISMARCKOnly a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhen you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAn appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWe Germans fear God, but nothing else 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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKHounds follow those who feed them.
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