I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWe Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them 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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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