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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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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Stew
Grease
Juice
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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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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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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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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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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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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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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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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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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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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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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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