What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is not an exact science.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Great men have great dogs.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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 want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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