Otto von Bismarck Quotes - Page 4

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• Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

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  War, Worthy, Show Me

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• Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

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  Freedom, Sleep, Law

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• I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

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  Men, Coins, Pay

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• Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

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  Forgiving, Taught, Stills

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• Politics ruins the character.

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  Character, Adversity, Politics

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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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  Country, Kings, Hatred

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• I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

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  Drunk

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• I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Ambition

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• War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

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  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

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  Physicians, Stills

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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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  Mistake, Fool, Profit

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• Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

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  Beautiful, Angel, Effort

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• I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

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  Would Be, Conflict, Difficulty

  "Die Reden des Ministerpräsidenten von Bismarck-Schönhausen im Preußischen Landtage 1862-1865". Book by Horst Kohl, 1903.

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• My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

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  Aries, Life Is, Subjects

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• In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

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  Horse, Long, Racing

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• The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

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  Past, Trying, Tasks

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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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  Catholic, Atheism, Moments

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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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  Gratitude, Rely Upon, Sovereign

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• Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

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  Kings, Suffering, Prussia

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• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

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  Waiting, Political, Events

  "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.

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• The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

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  Clever, Sleep, Night

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• An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

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  Fear, Heart, Echoes

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• God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

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  United States, Looks, Fool

  "The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba". Book by Herbert Howland Sargent, Volume 1, p. 105, 1907.

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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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  Pirate, Gentleman, Trying

  "Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics". Book by Robert William Seton-Watson, 1935.

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• The luxury of one's own opinion.

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  Luxury, Opinion

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