Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is the art of the possible.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Great men have great dogs.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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 generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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