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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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