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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Otto von Bismarck

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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.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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