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.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWe Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Politics ruins the character.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Great men have great dogs.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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