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Otto von Bismarck Quotes: History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
         

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.


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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
         



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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.



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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).



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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History



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The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.



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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.



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



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



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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.



We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.



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