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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

Otto von Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
Politician
Statesman
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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America
States
Drunks
Providence
Fools
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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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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
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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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Politics are not a science based on logic they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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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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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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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
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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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