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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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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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Blood Decision Iron Majority Question Settle Speech
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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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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Great men have great dogs.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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