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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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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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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
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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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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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