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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Otto von Bismarck

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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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Blood Decision Iron Majority Question Settle Speech
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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History Paper Print Writing
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Beat Deal Follow Generation
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Fools Philosophy Truth World
Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Dog Feed Follow One Liner Pet
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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History Writing
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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Agree Carry Intention Practice Principle
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Except Eyes People Wep
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Law Rule See
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Believe Deny Official Politics
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Consideration Endeavor Evil Nation Spare Victory War
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Children Country Idiot Protection Providence
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.
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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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Cancer Government Law Politics
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Blind Friendship Love Notice
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Death Fear Prevention Suicide War
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Destiny Strong Weakness Wisdom
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Art One Liner Politics Possible
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Cease Conflict Existence Struggle
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Bore Done
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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Choose Course Government Right

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