blood and iron
Americanidiom
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
As old blood and iron once remarked: "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."
From Time Magazine Archive
Reporters, allured by the fact that the young man was "the eldest son of the eldest son of the man of blood and iron," buttonholed 28-year-old Prince Otto von Bismarck.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire paleotechnic period was ruled . . . by the policy of blood and iron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Which process, judged by all things that men desire, gives the better result, the physical force of blood and iron which we see, or the intellectual or psychic force which we cannot see?
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
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