A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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