Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAn appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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