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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Otto von Bismarck

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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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History Writing
Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Control Event Float Man Steer
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Government House Nursery Politics
The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Future Nation School
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Death Fear Prevention Suicide War
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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Blood Decision Iron Majority Question Settle Speech
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Fools Philosophy Truth World
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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Change Choose Constant Instant Logic Politics Science Situation
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Believe Deny Official Politics
What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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History Learning
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Army Border Conquer Eloquence
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Except Eyes People Wep

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