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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKGovernment 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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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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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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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