However, in the 1850s Bismarck correctly foresaw that by failing to support Russia ( after Russian help in crushing the Hungarian Revolt in 1849, and at Olmütz in 1850, the Austrian leader Schwarzenberg had said that " Austria would astonish the world by the depth of her ingratitude ") Austria could no longer count on Russian support in Italy and Germany, and had thus exposed herself to attack by France and Prussia.

Some in the German military clamored for a preemptive war with Russia, but Bismarck said that " Preemptive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

Bismarck's biographer A. J. P. Taylor said: " It would be unfair to say that Bismarck took up social welfare solely to weaken the Social Democrats ; he had had it in mind for a long time, and believed in it deeply.

When a reference was made to his friendship with Ferdinand Lassalle ( a nationalist and state-oriented socialist ), Bismarck said that he was a more practical " socialist " than the Social Democrats.

German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck afterwards said that this speech of Bebel's was a “ ray of light ” showing him that socialism was an enemy to be fought against and crushed.

Bismarck himself said that the Poles who find themselves without land should " move to Morocco ".

By this argument, Bismarck cannot be said to have revolutionized Prussian politics since the Zollverein is evidence of an anti-Austrian flow of German unification thirty years before he became the Prussian head of government.

The country evolved into a European democracy and with financial and economic growth, political influence also grew which caused constant problems with Serbia's largest neighbor, Austria-Hungary, which even developed plans to turn Serbia into one of its provinces ( already in 1879 German chancellor Otto von Bismarck said that Serbia is the stumbling-block in Austria's development ).

Churchill joined Wickham Corwin's Bismarck automobile dealership in 1925 and the company became Corwin-Churchill Motor Co. A colleague said he " was a hell of a salesman — a smart fellow and real promoter.

In addition, Otto von Bismarck is quoted when Admiral Nechayev says " Diplomacy is the art of the possible ", though Bismarck actually said " Politics is the art of the possible ".

In the footsteps of Bismarck, who manged to persuade the German people in 1870 that they have been too deeply humiliated by France not to draw the sword. So we now build dreadnoughts, and the Kaiser and his government never stop singing us their song of peace, which we must safeguard as if it were the Holy Grail. Therefore war.

Bismarck proposed that Prussia should exploit Austria's weakness to move her frontiers " as far south as Lake Constance " on the Swiss border ; instead Prussia mobilised troops in the Rhineland to deter further French advances into Venetia.

Arnim refused this reassignment and continued to put forth his views in opposition to Bismarck, going so far as to remove sensitive records from embassy files at Paris to back up his attacks on the chancellor.

Bismarck had fought and succeeded in leaving out Austria, Prussia's long standing competitor, and Prussia became the largest and by far most influential state in the new German Empire.

It has grown well in Bismarck, North Dakota, and is sold as far south as Okeechobee.

The state itself was led by German nationalism and Bismarck viewed Poles as one of the chief threat to German power ; as he declared The Polish question is to us a question of life and death and wanted Polish nation to disappear in private going as far as expressing his wish to exterminate Poles As a result the Polish population faced economic, religious and political discrimination the Germanisation of their territories was promoted and in places where Poles and Germans lived a virtual apartheid existed.

Lake Oahe begins just north of Pierre, South Dakota and extends nearly as far north as Bismarck, North Dakota.

Within a mere three or four centuries between about 1300 and 900 BC, the Lapita culture spread 6000 km further to the east from the Bismarck Archipelago, until it reached as far as Tonga and Samoa.

King George V was extremely short of fuel and had stayed at the scene far longer than Tovey had thought it could, so another cause for friction between Tovey and his political and professional superiors was a signal that his flagship was to remain in action until Bismarck had sunk, " Bismarck must be sunk at all costs ... even if it ... means towing King George V ".

Bismarck tried to foster alliances in Europe, on one hand to contain France, and on the other hand to consolidate Germany's influence in Europe.

The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.

After this episode, no one again openly challenged Bismarck in foreign policy matters until his resignation.

However, Wilhelm II intended to govern the country himself, making the ousting of Bismarck one of his first tasks as Kaiser.

For example, Hamburg's memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered one of the greatest expressions of imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art.

In 1890, Bismarck was created further Herzog von Lauenburg (" Duke of Lauenburg "; the Duchy was one of the territories which Prussia seized from the Danish king in 1864 ).

Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, introduced one of the first welfare systems for the working classes.

With Paris starving, and Gambetta's provincial armies reeling from one disaster after another, French foreign minister Jules Favre went to Versailles on 24 January to discuss peace terms with Bismarck.

The Bismarck Memorial Airport is located one nautical mile ( 1. 9 km ) southeast of Bismarck's central business district.

The cities of Bismarck and Jamestown are approximately a one hour drive from Tuttle, and are therefor accessible to Tuttle residents.

Bismarck was able to ignore the French for most of the 1870s and early 1880s, but as he found problems with his three erstwhile allies ( Austria, Russia, and Italy ) he realized France might one day take advantage of this ( as it did with Russia in 1894 ).

At the same time, Leopold promised Bismarck he would not give any one nation special status, and that German traders would be as welcome as any other.

In 1864 he did not stand for re-election, owing to an eye infection, but in 1866 he was one of the first to point out the way to a reconciliation between Bismarck and his former opponents.

: For exceptionally meritorious conduct ... as Commander Destroyer Squadron Twenty-three, in action against enemy Japanese forces northwest of the Bismarck Archipelago, at Kavieng, New Ireland, and Duke of York Island, February 17 to 23, 1944 ... ( He ) expertly directed his squadron in destroying two Japanese naval auxiliary vessels, one large cargo ship, a mine layer, four barges and inflicting severe damage on enemy shore installations and subsequently effected a skillful withdrawal without damage to his vessels ...

After the union of Germany as one empire in 1871, the Reichstag adopted a bill initiated by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as the " Civil Marriage Law " in 1875 ; since then, only civil marriages have been recognised in Germany.

Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, introduced one of the first Welfare systems for the working classes.

No one however was killed and few were injured, as Bismarck did not seek to extinguish Catholicism in his land, but rather sought to assimilate the Polish peasants and saw international Catholicism as an enemy of the " still fragile German Reich ".

Liebknecht used his position as a Reichstag member to criticize the political situation, and he combated the tendencies in his own party toward anarchism on the one hand and accommodation with Bismarck on the other.

The balance of power between the Great Powers became a major influence in European politics, prompting Otto von Bismarck to say " All politics reduces itself to this formula: try to be one of three, as long as the world is governed by the unstable equilibrium of five great powers.

Then, at about 6 am, one or more of Hoods magazines exploded, probably as the result of another shell hit from Bismarck.

The inferiority of the Mauser M71 / 84 and its 11mm black powder ammunition was one reason why Bismarck opposed going to war with France that winter, despite being pressed by the War Minister Waldersee.

She was one of the Royal Navy pursuit ships that tracked down the German battleship Bismarck.

His palaces in Berlin ( the later Reich Chancellery of Otto von Bismarck ), Poznań and Antonin near Ostrów Wielkopolski were known for great concerts performed by one of the most notable musicians of his times.

He is considered one of the most important and popular " Founders of Modern Bulgaria ", and is sometimes referred to as " the Bulgarian Bismarck ".