The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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