I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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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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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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