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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
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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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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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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Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
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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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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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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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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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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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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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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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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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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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