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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.

Otto von Bismarck

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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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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