QUOTES by Otto Von Bismarck
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“Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.”
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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”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“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.”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer”
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“Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.”
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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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“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
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“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
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“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
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“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
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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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“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
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“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best”
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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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“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood.”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been offically denied.”
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“I have a burden on my soul. During my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things...I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefields., and their mothers, brothers, and widows cried for them. And now this stands between me and God.”
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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 statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. ”
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“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
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“In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made.”
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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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“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”
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“We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
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“Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.”
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“Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“Life is like being at the dentist. You always think the worst is still to come, and it is over already”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck