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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Great men have great dogs.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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