A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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