Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from ...

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Great men have great dogs.

Politics ruins the character.

Politics is no exact science.

The luxury of one's own opinion.

Politics is not an exact science.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

The nation that has the schools has the future.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

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