An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is the art of the possible.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Politics ruins the character.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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