The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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