Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCKMan cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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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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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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