"not by speeches and majority resolutions are the great questions of the day to be decided, but by blood and iron" comes from a speech made by

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The "Not by speeches and majority resolutions are the great questions of the day to be decided, but by blood and iron" was spoken by a Prussian statesman named Otto von Bismarck.

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