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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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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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Politics are not a science based on logic they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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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 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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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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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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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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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