"[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron."
— War

January 1, 1970

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Otto von Bismarck, Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates (September 30, 1862). Same idea in Schenkendorf, Das Eiserne Kreuz