"The union of the States of Germany into a form of government similar in many respects to that of the American Union i…"

"I was never able to understand how it was that here and there the welfare of the Fatherland had to be sacrificed to m…"

"The sharp down-turn in the European economy in the 1870s had produced in most advanced economies save Britain a 'retu…"

"In 1871 Bismarck consummated both the Prussian victory over the French and the unification of Germany under Prussian …"

"Unfortunately Germany was not a democratic and unmilitary state like the other industrial giant of the world, the Uni…"

"Manifestly, in August 1914 the status quo of western Europe was about to vanish. Either the liberal democracies would…"

"From Antwerp to Baghdad there lies before us a large economic field in which German enterprise can develop. If we suc…"

"We see the strongest guarantee of peace for Europe in a policy of expansion. When have we exploited the embarrassment…"

"Imperial Germany does not depart sensibly from the pattern of Prussia under Frederick the Great, in respect of its na…"

"This modern state of the industrial arts that so has led to the rehabilitation of a dynastic state in Germany on a sc…"