A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics ruins the character.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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 after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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