A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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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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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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