A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
OTTO VON BISMARCKUniversal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Great men have great dogs.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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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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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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