A Really Great Man Is Known By

Let Us Put Germany, So To Speak, In The Saddle! You Will See That She Can Ride.

There Is A Providence That Protects Idiots, Drunkards, Children And The United States Of America.

Nothing Should Be Left To An Invaded People Except Their Eyes For Weeping.

The Great Questions Of The Day Will Not Be Settled By Means Of Speeches And Majority Decisions But By Iron And Blood.

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).