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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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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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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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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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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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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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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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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