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top_quotes_by_Otto_von_Bismarck.txt
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Politics is the art of the next best.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.