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Otto von Bismarck

1815-1898 ,  German chancellor
Otto von Bismarck Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s, he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, significantly and deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership.

Prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire.

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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Three professors- Homeland is lost.

Drei Professoren - Vaterland verloren!



People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.

(prediction of 1888)


The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Hounds follow those who feed them.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

There is a special providence for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America.

Politics is not an exact science.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.


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