A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhat we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Politics ruins the character.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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