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The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
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Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
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Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
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Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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 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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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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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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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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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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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Politics is not an exact science.
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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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