When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNo civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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