Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being 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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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