Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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