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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Otto von Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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 consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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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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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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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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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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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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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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