[April Lexington]

Bismarck accomplished all this “without commanding a single soldier, without dominating a vast parliamentary majority, without the support of a mass movement, without any previous experience in government and in the face of...”

While dressed in a blue and red leotard!

[B Knotts]

Bismarck was the architect of the modern state.

He, more than almost anyone other than perhaps Marx, designed the downfall of human liberty.

[rlmorel]

I simply cannot believe this desiccated, dried up old fart can still write.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

One particular aspect of Bismark's policies was the de-Catholicizing of the new German State. Austria-Hungary was kept out because it was a multinational Empire, was Catholic, and because its monarchy was far older and had more prestige than that of Prussia. In the early German state, Bismarck allied his monarchists with the socialists to suppress the Catholic people's party (the Kulturkampf). The result was a thoroughly Prussianised Empire, with dire results for Germany.