Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAll treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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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 ruins the character.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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