Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKWhat we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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Great men have great dogs.
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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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