Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNo civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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