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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.

Otto von Bismarck

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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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