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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
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Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
Iron Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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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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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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