Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe nation that has the schools has the future.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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 conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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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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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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