Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhen you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: 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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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