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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."
"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"
"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
Explore more quotes by Otto von Bismarck
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence."
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment."
"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
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