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Your map of Africa is all very fine, but my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia and here is France, and we are in the middle; that is my map of Africa.

On colonial policy

Otto von Bismarck

Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

Otto von Bismarck

A conquering army on the border will not be halted by the power of eloquence.

Otto von Bismarck

Of possible German intervention in the Balkans:

I shall not advise any participation in the war as long as no German interest shall be called in question that may be considered worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Otto von Bismarck

Let us…put Germany in the saddle! She will know well enough how to ride!

Otto von Bismarck

Man cannot create the current of events. He can only float with it and steer.

Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck

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Born: April 1, 1815

Died: July 30, 1898 (aged 83)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman
Gedanken und Erinnerungen

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war, europe, fear, africa, power, map, blood, god, saddle, germany, speeches, iron

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