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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
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Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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