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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.

Otto von Bismarck

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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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Execution Planning Poor Result Yield
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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Choose Course Government Right
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Fear God World
Politics ruins the character.
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Character One Liner Politics Ruin
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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Change Choose Constant Instant Logic Politics Science Situation
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Courtesy Declare Observe Polite Rule War
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Children Country Idiot Protection Providence
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Appeal Country Fear Heart
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Civilization Possess Religion Seek Worth
Great men have great dogs.
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Dog Men One Liner
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Emperor Naked Sight
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Except Eyes People Wep
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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Cancer Government Law Politics
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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Fraud Gentleman Society
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Election Hunt Lie People War
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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History Writing
Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Control Event Float Man Steer
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Cease Conflict Existence Struggle
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Cure Evil Law Medicine
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Fools Philosophy Truth World
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Country Expression Speak
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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Agree Carry Intention Practice Principle
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Deceive Finding Truth
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Blind Friendship Love Notice
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Believe Deny Official Politics
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Death Fear Prevention Suicide War
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Bore Done

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