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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
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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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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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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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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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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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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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