I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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