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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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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 is not an exact science.
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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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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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Politics is no exact science.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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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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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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