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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.
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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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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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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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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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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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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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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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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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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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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