Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI 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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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 conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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