"“How I despise the liberal gang that has captured the Chamber! They are prisoners of their own verbose unrealism, and…"

"Bismarck is the king's last mistress because only such a creature could have such power over an old man."

"A good many men will be killed, however, as long as no man can prove to me that a man can die more than once, I am no…"

"Either we are tremendously clever or the French strategists dreadful bunglers."

"I know ... only one peril, that of Socialism, and I hope that all the Christian Churches would find a common aim in f…"

"If at home there are people so innocent as to imagine that it is here a case of propaganda for Christian civilization…"

"I hear I am being attacked both in Prussian and American papers for being too hard on the Chinese and thus delaying t…"

"Unfortunately I must state the fact that the rank and file will not return better men than they were when they starte…"

"I see a future for us only in a Great War in which we lastingly cripple an opponent, France or Russia. Unless there s…"

""Democrat" is among officers simply a term denoting a bad lot."