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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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Freedom
Peace
War
Littles
Little
Cavalry
Caution
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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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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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