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