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 BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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