People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
From Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Politics ruins the character.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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