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Title: Otto von Bismarck


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Otto von Bismarck
  • Prussian Nationalist
  • Extraordinary Practitioner of REALPOLITIK

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Bismarck Completes His Project, 18 January 1871
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The Quotable Bismark Realpolitik
  • The great questions of the time are not decided
    by speeches and majority decisions that was the
    error of 1848-49 but by iron and blood. 1862
    speech to the Prussian Diet
  • Politics is not an exact Science. Speech 1863
  • Only a completely ready state can permit the
    luxury of a liberal governmentSpeech 1866
  • Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak
    it already knows how to ride. Speech to the N.
    German Reichstag 1877
  • A conquering army on the border will not be
    halted by the power of eloquence Ib.

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  • 7. He who has his thumb on the purse has the
    power. Ib.
  • 8. The right people in the right jobs. Speech
    1875
  • 9. God has a special providence for fools,
    drunks, and the United States of America.
    Unsourced
  • Realpolitik
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Power and the acquisition of power is the goal of
    all politics and politicians
  • Realizing this one should concern themselves less
    with the moral or ideological implications of
    actions
  • Realizing this focus should be on whether actions
    advance the individual or states interests or not
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