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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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Cavalry
Caution
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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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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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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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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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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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