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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
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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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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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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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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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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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