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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
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In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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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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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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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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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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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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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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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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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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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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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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