Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
OTTO VON BISMARCKBeware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Politics ruins the character.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Great men have great dogs.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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