Robert D. Kaplan Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: b. June 23, 1952
Birthday: June 23
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.
source: Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador
topic: Past, Men, Genius, Bismarck, Metternich
