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Famous Otto von Bismarck Quotes
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”
“I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.”
“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
“God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.”
“Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
“It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
“man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer”
“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best”
“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
“Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.”
“I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.”
“The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night”
“God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.”
“You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them”
“I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.”
“A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.”
“The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.”
“What we learn from History is that no one learns from History”
“No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.”