I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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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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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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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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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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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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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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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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