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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Great men have great dogs.
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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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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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