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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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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Great men have great dogs.
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