A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics ruins the character.
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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 sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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