If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.
"Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg", known as "Otto von Bismarck", was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s he engineered a series of wars that Unification of Germany/unified the German states (excluding Austria) into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership. With that accomplished by 1871 he skillfully used balance of power (international relations)/balance of power diplomacy to preserve German hegemony in a Europe which, despite many disputes and war scares, remained at peace. For historian Eric Hobsbawm, it was Bismarck, who "remained undisputed world champion at the game of multilateral diplomatic chess for almost twenty years after 1871, [and] devoted himself exclusively, and successfully, to maintaining peace between the powers."
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
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.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, 'Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.').
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.
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