"In the domain of political economy the abstract doctrines of science leave me perfectly cold, my only standard of judgment being experience."
— Otto von Bismarck

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in W. H. Dawson, Bismarck and State Socialism: An Exposition of the Social and Economic Legislation of Germany since 1870 (1891), p. 54