“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”
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“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some [expletive deleted] silly thing in the Balkans.” –Otto von Bismark And then this happened: Next stop: World War I. As quoted by Winston Churchill in an address given on August 16, 1945 in the House of Commons. Photo from the Smithsonian.