Wilhelm Von

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    Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    The true theater of history is therefore the temperate zone.
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood.
    —Otto Von Bismarck (1815–1898)