One day the great European War [will] come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.
Otto von Bismarck
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27[ Of possible German military intervention in the Balkans :] Not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Speech to Reichstag, 5 Dec. 1876
[ Remark to Meyer von Waldeck, 11 Aug. 1867 :] Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen . Politics is the art of the possible.
[ Of his dispute with Pope Pius IX over papal authority in Germany, alluding to Emperor Henry IV’s obeisance to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in 1077 :] We will not go to Canossa.
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