1In June, 862, Bismarck became Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia. In September of the same year, in his first speech at the Prussian Parliament, he declared loudly: "What Germany pays attention to is not Prussian liberalism, but power. Prussia must save its own strength and wait for the favorable opportunity. We have missed it several times. Major contemporary issues cannot be solved by discussion and majority voting, and sometimes they must be solved through a struggle, an iron struggle. " Bismarck's "iron blood" is his program and creed of unifying Germany, so he has the nickname "iron blood prime minister"