A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Politics 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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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 journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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