Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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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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