"The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put m…"

"There is only one person who is master in this Empire and I am not going to tolerate any other."

"You [recruits] have sworn loyalty to me. You have only one enemy and that is my enemy. In the present social confusio…"

"I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book and am trying to learn it by heart. It is a first-class …"

"There is a breed of men who do not deserve the name of Germans. I trust that the entire nation will find the strength…"

"The Party which dares to attack the foundations of our State, which sets itself against religion and does not stop at…"

"The poor French...They have not read their Mahan!"

"Imagine a monarch, holding personal command of his army, disbanding his regiments, sacred with a hundred years of his…"

"The British navy is strong enough to defy any hostile combination; Germany has, practically speaking, no navy. I am t…"

"I regard every Social Democrat as an enemy of the Empire and Fatherland."