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.
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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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Great men have great dogs.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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