All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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