"“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."

"A war is essentially the most dreadful and ruthless thing imaginable, therefore one's object should be so to conduct …"

"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…"

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