The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKUniversal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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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 really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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