Wilhelm II Quotes

#1. You English are like mad bulls ... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult ... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.

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#2. It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

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#3. Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.

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#4. For the first time , I am ashamed to be a German .

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#5. I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.

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#6. Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

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#7. The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

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#8. We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.

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#9. I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

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#10. Germany must have her place in the sun.

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#11. Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.

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#12. I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

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#13. You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

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#14. Woe and death to all who resist my will!

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