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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Otto von Bismarck

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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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