I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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