Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAn appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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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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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Great men have great dogs.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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