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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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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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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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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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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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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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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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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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