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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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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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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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
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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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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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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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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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