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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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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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Politics is no exact science.
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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 Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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