Bismarck Quotes

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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

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If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.(Bismarck died in 1898.)

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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

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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 whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

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Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

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A great unrecognized incapacity. -On Napoleon III

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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

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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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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

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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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Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.

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I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

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I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names.

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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

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The luxury of one's own opinion. -Speech to the Prussian Diet, December 17, 1873

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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The master of Bohemia is the master of Europe.

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The nation that has the schools has the future.

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The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's grace.

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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

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Treat them as fellow countrymen; homicidally if necessary." -During the Austro-Prussian War.

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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

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What we learn from history is that no one learns from history.

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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

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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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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

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You can't destroy the Poles but if you give them power they'll destroy themselves.

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You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?

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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa. -Conversation with a colonial enthusiast.