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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
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Otto Eduard Leopold
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Duke of Lauenburg
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Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
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Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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 little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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