Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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 conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Great men have great dogs.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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