Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

"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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"Politics is the art of the possible."

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

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

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

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"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."

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

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