Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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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 after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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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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