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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck

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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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