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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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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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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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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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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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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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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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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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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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