Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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