All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAll treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
OTTO VON BISMARCKHistory is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWe Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is the art of the possible.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics 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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWith a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPeople never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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