Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided - that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood. (Otto von Bismarck)

Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided - that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood.

Otto von Bismarck

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