Quote#Speech
If we really came to a position in which we could no longer produce…
Quote byOtto von Bismarck · 1815–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Reichstag advocating protective tariffs, quoted in Paul Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914 (1980), p. 51.
English (original)
If we really came to a position in which we could no longer produce the grain which we must necessarily consume, then in what state would we be if in wartime we had no Russian grain imports and perhaps simultaneously were blockaded along our coasts – in other words, if we had no grain at all?
— Otto von Bismarck
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