Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCKGreat men have great dogs.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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