Politics is not an exact science.
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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Great men have great dogs.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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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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