The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLove is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics 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 nation that has the schools has the future.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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 BISMARCKPeople never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAll treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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.
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