The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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