The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics ruins the character.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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