4.9 · 47 votes · 136 reads
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Government and Politics
An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.4.4 · 47 votes · 34 reads
Science and Technology
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.4.3 · 56 votes · 96 reads
Government and Politics
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.3.9 · 9 votes · 86 reads
Art and Culture
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.4.8 · 30 votes · 130 reads
Virtues
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.4.6 · 25 votes · 69 reads
Government and Politics
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.3.3 · 28 votes · 192 reads
Society
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.4.0 · 12 votes · 14 reads
Time
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.3.4 · 49 votes · 167 reads
Government and Politics
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.4.9 · 64 votes · 103 reads
Government and Politics
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.3.3 · 48 votes · 60 reads
Government and Politics
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.3.3 · 45 votes · 146 reads
Science and Technology
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.4.5 · 25 votes · 167 reads
Thought and Reason
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.4.9 · 24 votes · 107 reads
Government and Politics
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.4.9 · 35 votes · 193 reads
Government and Politics
Public instruction should be the first object of government.3.3 · 48 votes · 136 reads
Society
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.4.4 · 50 votes · 31 reads
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