Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics 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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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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