Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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When you want to fool the world, tell 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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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