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.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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 consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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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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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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