"What does their hate matter to us? ... Oderint dum metuant! Let them hate us, but let them fear us!"

"But they did not want to listen and this nice fellow Bethmann, who has no inkling of the world out there, this misera…"

"[It was] through the ineptitude and stupidity of Bethmann and Jagow [that Germany had] blundered into war [in den Kri…"

"The Auswärtiges Amt of 1914 was the incubator in which the monstrous egg of the ultimatum to Serbia was hatched. This…"

"We ourselves brought about [this war] through the ultimatum to Serbia (which we either permitted or inspired)."

"You have given [the Austrians] carte blanche – do you realize what you have done? If the late Prince Bismarck could a…"

"In spite of the fact that we have no such fleet as we should have, we have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun…"

"Die Freiheit, die Sie meinen, das ist die Willkür für Sie, der Terrorismus für andere. Und willst du nicht mein Brude…"

"Mit einem Worte: wir wollen niemand in den Schatten stellen, aber wir verlangen auch unseren Platz an der Sonne."

"Wer Dankbarkeit fordert, verdient keine."