Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKUniversal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Politics ruins the character.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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