Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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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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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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