People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
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One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. -
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
More quotes by Otto von Bismarck
- An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
- Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
- A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
- The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
- The main thing is to make history, not to write it.