Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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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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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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