It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
OTTO VON BISMARCKIt is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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