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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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There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Politics is no exact science.
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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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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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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
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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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