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• This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

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  Song, Blood, Iron

  Prussian House of Deputies, 28 January 1886 (used by Bismarck in the form Eisen und Blut 30 September 1862)

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• I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

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  Play, Want, Matter

  Speech to the Reichstag, 19 February 1878, in Ludwig Hahn (ed.) 'Fürst Bismarck. Sein politisches Leben und Wirken' vol. 3 (1881) p. 90

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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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• Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

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  Germany, Speak, Saddles

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• There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

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  Two, Sausage, Want

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

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  Military, Law, Political

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• Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

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  Art, Aries, Professors

  "The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When". Book by Ralph Keyes, 2006.

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• We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

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  World, Aries, Fear God

  Otto von Bismarck's Speech to the Reichstag, February 6, 1888.

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• Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

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  Punishment, Grease, Juice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 649-652, 1922.

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• We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

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  Law, Knowing, Sausage

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• Politics is not an exact science.

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  Military, Political, Politics

  Expression in the Reichstag in 1884, "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". Book by Ralph Keyes, 2006.

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• Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

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  Watches, Sausage, Want

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• There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

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  Men, Law, Two

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• Politics is no exact science.

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  Science, Politics, Exact Sciences

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