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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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Politician
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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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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
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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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This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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