To: DallasBiff
Bismarck was a great leader. However, he invented the modern social welfare system.
2 posted on
01/03/2023 11:26:16 AM PST by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
To: rfp1234
“ Bismarck was a great leader. However, he invented the modern social welfare system.”
I believe he did that to blunt the rise of the Communists.
6 posted on
01/03/2023 11:30:33 AM PST by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: rfp1234
"Bismarck was a great leader. However, he invented the modern social welfare system."
I read a translation of his memoirs in college some seventy years ago. It was a good read; I was impressed at how sharp (and cynical) he was. One quote I remember, "The only thing wrong with monarchy is there is too much petticoat influence." The Prussian king's wife was pro-French.
His memoirs are available for download in the Internet.
14 posted on
01/03/2023 12:43:42 PM PST by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: rfp1234
Bismarck was quoted as speaking about sausage and diplomacy but close enough.
18 posted on
01/04/2023 2:49:01 AM PST by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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