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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.

Otto von Bismarck

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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Believe Deny Official Politics
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Beware Compensation Conscious Deed Noble Sacrifice Sentimental
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
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Design Execution Generosity Humanity Inspirational Man Moderation Success
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
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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History Paper Print 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
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Ability History Horse Judgment Leadership Politics
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Election Hunt Lie People War
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Beat Deal Follow Generation
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
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Government House Nursery Politics
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Appeal Country Fear Heart
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Death Fear Prevention Suicide War
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Except Eyes People Wep
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Fools Philosophy Truth World

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