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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.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
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Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
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Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
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Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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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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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Politics is no exact science.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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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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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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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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