in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
A statesman cannot create anything himself. He must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events; then leap up and grasp the hem of his garment.
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Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal. A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all. I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where. Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
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I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
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Let us lift Germany, so to speak, into the saddle. It will certainly be able to ride.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.
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Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided, that was the error of 1848 and 1849, but by iron and blood.
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