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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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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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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
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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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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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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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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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.
Otto von Bismarck
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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