Listen to the scratchy recording at the link.
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
2 posted on
01/31/2012 3:19:51 PM PST by
DarthVader
(Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Very interesting! Thank you for posting.
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Isn’t there a quote by Bismarck to the effect that children educated by the State make for much more compliant citizens?
4 posted on
01/31/2012 3:20:35 PM PST by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Thanks for posting this...I love history.
5 posted on
01/31/2012 3:24:17 PM PST by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Little-known fact: Edison was experimenting with motion pictures at the same time, and he tried to get this sound recording to match up with the picture. But unfortunately he was not able to . . . synch the Bismarck.
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
My husband used to work with a guy whose grandfather was a personal friend of Otto von Bismark and had numerous letters from him. After his passing, they tossed them!!! He mentioned it to my husband, who told him of the fortune that they would have been worth. He turned green... Small treasure trove of history lost there.
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
In English, no less!
Bismarck was college friends with John Lothrop Motley, an American writer and diplomat. Motley made Bismarck the hero of a novel he wrote before Bismarck became famous. Young Otto was quite the cut-up.
13 posted on
01/31/2012 4:20:46 PM PST by
x
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
More controversially, he also read the first lines of the Marseillaise, the national anthem of France.
To hear Bismark singing Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles, now that would be something.
19 posted on
01/31/2012 6:44:47 PM PST by
Cheburashka
(If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; flaglady47
"Ich bin ein Bismark".
(JFK Speech, June 26, 1963, Berlin, Germany)
Leni
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
22 posted on
01/31/2012 7:00:15 PM PST by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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