TuesdaySep 16, 2025
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
A really great man is known by three signs generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
Let us put Germany, so to speak in the saddle, you will see that she can ride.
Politics is not an exact science ... but an art.
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.
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
The king reigns but does not govern.
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
The luxury of ones own opinion.
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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