Otto von Bismarck — "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned foolish …"
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.
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A prophetic warning about the volatile nature of the Balkans, often cited in relation to WWI.
Date: 1888
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