A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAn appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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 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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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 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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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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