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• Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
  -- Prince Otto von Bismark (1815-1898) quoted in Paul Lysons "The Gods in the Battle...
• Politics is the doctrine of the possible, the attainable. -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)
• Die Politik is keine exakte Wissenschaft. [Politics are not an exact science.
  ] -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)...
• With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
  -- Otto von Bismark...
• There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God
  and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not....
• I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph. -- Prince Bismark
• Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. -- Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)