With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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 generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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