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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
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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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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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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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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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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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