Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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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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