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Otto von Bismarck. Military, Russia, Political. 212 Copy quote. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck. Wise, Wisdom, Mistake. 287 Copy quote. The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers ...
- “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” ― Otto von Bismarck.
- “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.” ― Otto von Bismarck.
- “Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.” ― Otto von Bismarck.
- “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.” ― Otto von Bismarck.
- There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. Otto von Bismarck.
- Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismarck.
- Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck.
- People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Otto von Bismarck.
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I am of opinion that the idea of the Christian State is as old as the ci-devant Holy Roman Empire, as old as all the European States, that it is the soil in which these States have taken root, and...
Haut doch die Polen, daß sie am Leben verzagen; ich habe alles Mitgefühl für ihre Lage, aber wir können, wenn wir bestehn wollen, nichts andres tun, als sie ausrotten; der Wolf kann auch nicht dafü...
Seien Sie außer Sorge, nach Kanossa gehen wir nicht, weder körperlich noch geistig.Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.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 b...For me there has been but one compass, one pole-star, after which I have steered: Salus publica. Since I entered public life I have often, perhaps, acted rashly and imprudently. But when I have had...
The German who is still free from all Slav or Celtic alloy has a distinctive character and vies with all his equals. When he is allied with other races, provided he has the necessary patience and e...
A statesman cannot create anything himself. He must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events; then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.I have always found the word Europe on the lips of those politicians who wanted something from other Powers which they dared not demand in their own names.Struggle is everywhere, without struggle no life, and if we want to go on living, we must be ready for further struggles.I have never judged international disputes by the standards which prevail at a student's duel.In the domain of political economy the abstract doctrines of science leave me perfectly cold, my only standard of judgment being experience.Otto Eduard Leopold, better known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian statesman who served as the first Chancellor of Germany. Owing to his statesmanship and domineering rule and his plans for the Unification of Germany; he was by named as ‘Iron Chancellor’. In a bid to achieve his ultimate goal to unify Germany, Bismarck plotted three wars.
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Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, commonly known as Otto von Bismarck, was a prominent statesman in 19th-century Germany. He was born on April 1, 1815, in Schönhausen, a village in the Prussian province of Saxony. Bismarck came from an aristocratic Junker family and received a strict Prussian upbringing.
