The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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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.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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