Great men have great dogs.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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 have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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