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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
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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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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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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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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
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