Otto von Bismarck Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
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“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
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“The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.”
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“Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
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“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
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“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
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“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
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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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“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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“You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves”
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“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”
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“You can do anything with children if you only play with them.”
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“If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”
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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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“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”
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“The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night”
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“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
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“You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them”
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“Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.”
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“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
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“I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.”
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“We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
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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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“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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“We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.”
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“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
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“Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.”
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