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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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Christian
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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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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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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