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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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
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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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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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.
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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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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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