I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics ruins the character.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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