"Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own."
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"Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent."
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"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."
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"Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it"
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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
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"Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping."
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"Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid."
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"The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope."
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"I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin."
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"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best"
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"Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery."
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"Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made."
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"I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them."
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"War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices."
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"I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward."
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"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
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"My subject is my life, and my life is my subject."
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"God always looks after the fools and — and the United States."
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"Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man."
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"In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you."
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