Or Lucy, if you're not willing to go there. The setup didn't so much rely on having Bismarck or someone just like him (in fact, it seems pretty clear he intended the Kaiser to be self sufficient once the Iron Chancellors task was done) it just depended on whoever was in charge not being a megalomaniacal idiot. I believe the John Adams line is "When providing for our posterity we should always remember that virtue is not hereditary. " Hmmm, maybe objecting to how other governments are run should've waited till the Americans left. 
If you are going to place an extremely powerful weapon in someone's hands, you should either put in a good enough safety mechanism or accept the blame for what comes out of it. He didn't do the first....
And if the hands belong to a megalomaniacal idiot then you deserve even more blame
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power
- 14/10/2010 09:24:57 AM
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Yes, and how'd that go for you
- 14/10/2010 10:14:19 AM
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Not that I wanna defend a militaristic and nationalistic post I don't agree with...
- 14/10/2010 10:37:11 AM
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That's really not fair.
- 14/10/2010 12:57:15 PM
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</taking things too seriously>
- 14/10/2010 01:01:12 PM
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He has good points, though. *NM*
- 14/10/2010 01:16:46 PM
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Just not a sense of humour or a knowledge of American geography
- 14/10/2010 02:16:27 PM
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I have a sense of humor!
- 14/10/2010 03:21:56 PM
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Pfft, you just have some knock of version, as the shoddy spelling shows.
- 14/10/2010 03:24:46 PM
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A sense of humor only helps if something is actually funny 
*NM*
- 14/10/2010 08:14:25 PM
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*NM*
- 14/10/2010 08:14:25 PM
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You have to have a sense of humour ro know if something is funny *wins*
- 14/10/2010 09:54:12 PM
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Right, so his actions led to it
- 14/10/2010 02:29:08 PM
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By that logic it's Adams fault.
- 14/10/2010 03:12:22 PM
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Adams?
- 14/10/2010 03:28:30 PM
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The one married to Eve, not the one from wotmania.
- 14/10/2010 05:23:24 PM
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I was more confused if you meant "Adam's" or "Adams'", it was not at all clear
- 14/10/2010 07:18:25 PM
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- 14/10/2010 07:18:25 PM
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Wow, that was really obnoxious. *NM*
- 14/10/2010 02:07:19 PM
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*NM*
- 14/10/2010 02:07:19 PM
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Still bitter, heh? Typical kraut, just can't accept the result
- 14/10/2010 02:30:46 PM
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- 14/10/2010 02:30:46 PM
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And/or I just find you annoying.
- 14/10/2010 06:10:05 PM
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- 14/10/2010 06:10:05 PM
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Well
- 14/10/2010 07:29:23 PM
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*NM*
SEIG HEIL! *NM*
- 14/10/2010 10:43:42 AM
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If only I got an Euro each time someone misspelled this crap *NM*
- 14/10/2010 10:58:22 AM
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SIEG HEIL! *NM*
- 14/10/2010 11:00:02 AM
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Also, wrong century. *NM*
- 14/10/2010 11:07:26 AM
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Yeah, well, that speech was given in 1863 and there was no Kaiser tell 1871 so go correct Otto *NM*
- 14/10/2010 11:09:44 AM
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At least spell his name correctly if you're going to quote him.
- 14/10/2010 11:39:33 AM
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I didn't even notice (s)he'd not spelt it with the "c" *NM*
- 14/10/2010 11:42:53 AM
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STOP IMPERSONATING MY HUBBY!!!!
- 14/10/2010 01:25:29 PM
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I suggest a permanent change
Wait, that wasn't you? *NM*
- 14/10/2010 01:36:21 PM
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*NM*
- 14/10/2010 01:36:21 PM
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She spelled the name correctly, with the "c". *NM*
- 14/10/2010 01:51:19 PM
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*NM*
- 14/10/2010 01:51:19 PM
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I assumed that was a double bluff! *NM*
- 14/10/2010 02:16:37 PM
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You should've known better: she's way to fastidious about her Germans to do so even in jest. lol *NM*
- 14/10/2010 03:42:11 PM
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