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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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
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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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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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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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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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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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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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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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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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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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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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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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