Politics is the art of the possible.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitical judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics is not an exact science.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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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 am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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.
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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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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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