With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhat we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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