The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCKGovernment is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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