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Events on Tuesday 30 September 1862 1
1862Bismarck delivers "Blood and Iron" speechPrussian leader outlines path to German unityAddressing the Prussian parliament's budget committee, Otto von Bismarck declared that Germany's great questions would be decided not by speeches and majority resolutions but by iron and blood. The speech became a defining statement of Realpolitik.