I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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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 conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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Politics ruins the character.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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