A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Politics 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.
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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Politics ruins the character.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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