Who is Otto Von Bismarck
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (German: Otto Fürst von Bismarck, Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Herzog zu Lauenburg, pronounced [ˈɔtoː fɔn ˈbɪsmaʁk] (listen); 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of Junker landowners, Bismarck rose rapidly in Prussian politics, and from 1862 to 1890 he was the minister president and foreign minister of Prussia. Before his rise to the executive, he was the Prussian ambassador to Russia and France and served in both houses of the Prussian Parliament. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as the first Chancellor of the German Empire until 1890, in which capacity he...Read Full Biography of Otto Von Bismarck
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- An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
- Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
- A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
- The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
- The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Edpearce080759: kaiser wilhelm ii dismissed his father's long-time chancellor, otto von bismarck in 1890. the phrase ‘dropping the pilot’ meaning to dispense with a valued leader originated on march 29, 1890 in a punch cartoon showing wilhelm doing this.Ht_9944: 1. man 2. canadian 3. indian 4. hindu 5. none - all canadian parties suck 6. absolute monarchist, old tory 7. ideally mercantilism or feudalism lmfao but state capitalism is good enough 8. imperialist 9. kaiser wilhelm ii, otto von bismarck, frederick the great, napoleon
Vasilje_gr: "all rumors are false until officially denied." - otto von bismarck
Charles41074731: to retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.,otto von bismarck,laws, watch, must ,
Mary_afnmppov: as we saw this year this quote is true about most laws. "the less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night.— otto von bismarck." do people in the general public need to better understand how laws are made to achieve more transparency?
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