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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
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In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
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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 bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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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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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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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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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.
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