I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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