The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from 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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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