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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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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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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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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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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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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 a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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