This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
Otto von BismarckHe obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.
Otto von Bismarck