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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Otto von Bismarck

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Appeal Country Fear Heart
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Death Fear Prevention Suicide War
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Except Eyes People Wep
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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Choose Course Government Right
Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Control Event Float Man Steer
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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Cancer Government Law Politics
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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Blood Decision Iron Majority Question Settle Speech
What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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History Learning
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Cease Conflict Existence Struggle
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Courtesy Declare Observe Polite Rule War
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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Fraud Gentleman Society
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Country Expression Speak
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Fear God World
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Election Hunt Lie People War
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Cure Evil Law Medicine
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Design Execution Generosity Greatness Humanity Man Moderation Success

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