A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThere is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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 little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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