The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics 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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Great men have great dogs.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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