Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKHounds follow those who feed them.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Politics ruins the character.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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