Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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