Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics 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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Great men have great dogs.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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