Here's Bismarck's neat solution to the Irish problem:
"You've got to exchange the populations of
Holland and Ireland. Then the Dutch will turn Ireland into a beautiful garden and
the Irish will forget to mend the dykes and will all be drowned."
Bismarck had a thing about dykes. In his young Junker manhood had been a dyke reeve (Deichhauptmann) on the Elbe: "it depends on the managers of this office whether from time to time we come under water or not" he wrote.
When Chancellor he would often moan about Liberals, Catholics, Socialists and so on, repeating a saying in rhyme: "Was nicht will deichen, das muss weichen." (Those who won't help with the dykes should clear off).
This was a man who sensed that there were tides out there that could drown a constitution. He mis-identified the flood-tide, however.
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