A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKHistory is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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 main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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