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Politics ruins the character.

Otto von Bismarck

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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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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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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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