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The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. - Otto von Bismarck
" "The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
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About Otto von Bismarck
Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), was a German aristocrat and statesman; he was Minister President of Prussia (1862–1890), and the first Chancellor of Germany (1871–1890). Nicknamed the Iron Chancellor, he is noted for his laconic remarks.
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Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg
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Iron Chancellor
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Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck-Schönhausen
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Otto Eduard Leopold
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Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
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Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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Bismarck
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In looking back upon this situation, we have lamentable proof of the degree of dishonesty and cosmopolitanism to which political parties with us attained when actuated by party hatred. Something similar may have happened elsewhere; but I know of no other country where
the universal national feeling and love for the whole Fatherland offered so little resistance to the excesses of party passion as with us.
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