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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
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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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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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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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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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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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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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