Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKI consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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