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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...

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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant,...

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not ...

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think har...

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Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...

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Politics ruins the character.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intent...

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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the begin...

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Politics is the art of the possible.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and ir...

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right b...

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the main thing is to make history not to write it

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Politics is not an exact science.

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the...

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The king reigns but does not govern.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-aft...

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

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Otto von Bismarck

Statesman

Born: 1815-04-01

Died: 1898-07-30

Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), was a German aristocrat and statesman; he was Minister President of Prussia (1862–1890), and the first Chancellor of Germany (1871–1890). Nicknamed the Iron Chancellor, he is noted for his laconic remarks.More