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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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With 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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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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