Otto von Bismarck

A brilliant, pragmatic statesman and who worked to unify Germany and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire. He practiced Realpolitik, a pragmatic approach that is often represented as Machiavellian. He was called the Iron Chancellor because of a speech he made saying that "The great questions of the time will not be resolved by speeches and majority decisions...but by iron and blood." He predicted that World War I will start because of "some damned fool thing in the Balkans." Putting his poster on your office is a great way to piss off uber liberal college students.