The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Great men have great dogs.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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