A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Great men have great dogs.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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