With 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 BISMARCKGreat men have great dogs.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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