I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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 government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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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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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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