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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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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Germany
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Saddles
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Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
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Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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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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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
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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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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 consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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