During the time after the failed revolutions of 1848, there was a push for making a modern nation-state out of Germany. Otto von Bismarck worked off the ideals of conservatism, believing a better quality of life would result in more stability in the state, via silencing critics from the liberal side, and placating the impulses of the past revolutions. Bismarck, true to conservative form, focused a majority of his attention and time to building an army and suppress the voices of the people. He said, “The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions - but by iron and blood” (Hunt 705). After a regime almost solely based on conservative values, it would make sense that Bismarck would be rejected by the liberalism
