SundayJan 11, 2026
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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.
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
The luxury of ones own opinion.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
The king reigns but does not govern.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
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 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.
Politics is not an exact science ... but an art.
Let us put Germany, so to speak in the saddle, you will see that she can ride.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
A really great man is known by three signs generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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