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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is the art of the possible.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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