Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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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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