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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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
Statesman
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
Luxury
Opinion
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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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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 secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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