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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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 is not an exact science.
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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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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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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 really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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