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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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