There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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