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One Day The Great European War Will Come Out Of Some Damned Foolish Thing In The Balkans (1888).

A Statesman... Must Wait Until He Hears The Steps Of God Sounding Through Events, Then Leap Up And Grasp The Hem Of His Garment.

Not Even The King Himself Has The Right To Subordinate The Interests Of His Country To His Own Feelings Of Love Or Hatred Towards Strangers; He Is, However, Responsible Towards God And Not To Me If He Does So, And Therefore On This Point I Am Silent.

The Position Of Prussia In Germany Will Not Be Determined By Its Liberalism But By Its Power ... Prussia Must Concentrate Its Strength And Hold It For The Favorable Moment, Which Has Already Come And Gone Several Times. Since The Treaties Of Vienna, Our Frontiers Have Been Ill-designed For A Healthy Body Politic. Not Through Speeches And Majority Decisions Will The Great Questions Of The Day Be Decided - That Was The Great Mistake Of 1848 And 1849 - But By Iron And Blood (eisen Und Blut).

What We Learn From History Is That No One Learns From History