Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCKOnly a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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