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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 Bismarck

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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of 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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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 is the art of the possible.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Choose Course Government Right
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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Agree Carry Intention Practice Principle
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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Politics ruins the character.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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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 nation that has the schools has the future.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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