A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics ruins the character.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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