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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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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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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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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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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