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Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck (German: [ˈɔtoː fɔn ˈbɪsmark] ( listen)), was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890.

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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Christian, Civilization, Possessing, Worth

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

Glazed, Looked, Military, Think, Veterans Day, War

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

Bullets, Pointed, Words

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

Art, Next, Politics, Possible

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Alliances, Compensation, Consciousness, Good, Noble, Sacrifice

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

Kings, Prussia, Revolutions, Start, Suffering

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Law, Laws, Military, Political, Sausages, Watch

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

Doe, Folly, Head, Heart, People

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.

Govern, Help, Helping, Law, Servant, Servants

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

History, Learn, Learns

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.

Agency, Class, Government, Necessity, Propertyless, State

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here. . . is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

Europe, Lying, Middle, Nice, Quite, Russia

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Atheism, Catholic, Moments, Officer, Priest

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.

Country, Feelings, Hatred, Kings, Responsible, Silent

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

Good, Military, Political, Politics, Russia, Treaty

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States. . . and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

Government, Nation, People, States, United, United States

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Committing, Death, Fear Of Death, Preventive, Suicide, War

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Dog, Feed, Follow, Hounds, Puppy

The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed. . . Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.

Block, Division, Economic, Emissaries, Europe, War

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

America, Entirely, Men, Money, Riches, States

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