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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
Stew
Grease
Juice
Punishment
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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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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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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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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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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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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 only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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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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