| Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1907 - 394 pages
...His first speech aroused the attention of his own country and of Europe. " Prussia," so he argued, " could no longer wear unaided on its long narrow figure...: we should be unable to avoid a serious contest, 1 M. de Persigny, more sup, declares that he gave this advice to Bismarck, and that Bismarck warmly... | |
| Germany - 1914 - 56 pages
...the Diet at Frankfurt or by any other popular or parliamentary means. On the other hand, Prussia " could no longer wear unaided on its long narrow figure...security; that must be equally distributed over all the German peoples." Repeating his famous phrase to the Diet in his Memoirs, Bismarck reiterates in... | |
| John Rowan Hamilton O'Regan - History - 1915 - 132 pages
...1898). Quoted by permission of the publishers. Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. The Unification of Germany. We should get no nearer the goal by speeches, associations,...majorities ; we should be unable to avoid a serious contest which could only be settled by blood and iron. (I., pp. 309-10.) During the time that I was in office... | |
| United States - 1916 - 1420 pages
...1866 — 1. e., from speaking to doing, from phrase to action. And further (p. 313) : Prussia » * * could no longer wear unaided on its long, narrow figure...the panoply which Germany required for its security ; it must be equally distributed over all German peoples. We should get no nearer the goal by speeches,... | |
| Theresa C. Noonan - Education - 1999 - 146 pages
...plainly the direction in which I was going. Prussia . . . could no longer carry alone the power that Germany required for its security. That must be equally distributed over all German peoples. We would get not nearer our goal by speeches, associations, or decisions by the majority. We would not... | |
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