"The politician has not to revenge what has happened but to ensure that it does not happen again."
— Otto von Bismarck

January 1, 1970

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In 1867, following public criticism of courtesy shown to the defeated Napoleon III after the battle of Sedan, as quoted in A. J. P. Taylor, Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (1955), p. 115. Also quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1997), p. 46.