An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is not an exact science.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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