blood and iron
Americanidiom
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The entire paleotechnic period was ruled . . . by the policy of blood and iron.
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Last week six Western European nations, including the ancient enemies France and Germany who have three times tried blood and iron, gave coal and iron a chance to unite them.
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He loved its sense of pageantry and or der, qualities he attributed to the pervasive military creed of "blood and iron."
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As old blood and iron once remarked: "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."
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It is a science of both "blood and iron."
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife
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