Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPreventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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 conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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