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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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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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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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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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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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Politics is no exact science.
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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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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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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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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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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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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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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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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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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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 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 most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
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