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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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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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Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
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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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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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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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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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