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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.
... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.
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.
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.
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 jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.