We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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