One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
Otto von BismarckThe Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.
Otto von BismarckWe Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
Otto von BismarckNot even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
Otto von Bismarck