I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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