History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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