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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…
• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in…
• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
• Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

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