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• Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

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  Law, Medicine, Evil

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• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

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  Funny, Mean, Men

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• He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Power, Thumbs, Purses

  Speech to North German Reichstag (May 21, 1869), Stenographische Berichte, (p. 1017), books.google.de.

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• He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

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  Government, People, United States

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• The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

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  Speak English, Events, Facts

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• The nation that has the schools has the future.

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  School, Nations

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

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  Military, War, Writing

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

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  Strong, Destiny, Weak

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• The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.

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  Agency, Government, Views

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

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  Art, Politics, Next

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• You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

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  Military, Giving, Consciousness

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• I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

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  Truth, Honesty, Deceiving

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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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  Hype, Gentleman, Trying

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• Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

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  Lying, Nice, Russia

  "Vom Fürsten Bismarck und seinem Haus. Tagebuchblätter". Book by Eugen Wolf, 1904.

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• A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

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  Half, Way, Humans

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• A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

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  Army, Borders, Conquer

  Speech to North German Reichstag, September 24, 1867.

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• I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.

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  Life, Principles, Want

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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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  War, Evil, Endeavor

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

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  Military, Writing, History

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• The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).

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  Mistake, Blood, Iron

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

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  Men, Events, Currents

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• Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

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  Dog, Religious, Believe

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• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

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  Christian, Civilization, Possessing

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• You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

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  Military, Bayonets, Able

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• We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

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  Fear, World, Aries

  Speech to the Reichstag, www.reichstagsprotokolle.de. February 06, 1888.

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