Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCKGovernment 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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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is 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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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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Great men have great dogs.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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