A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Great men have great dogs.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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