Quotes About Wilhelm Ii

#1. There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (with whom George bore a striking resemblance) furthering British democracy.

Paul Ham

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

Wilhelm II

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

Wilhelm II

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

Wilhelm II

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

Wilhelm II

#6. 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.

Wilhelm II

#7. I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

Sebastian Faulks

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

Wilhelm II

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

Wilhelm II

#10. Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.

LeBron James

#11. 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.

Wilhelm II

#12. The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Robert Greene

#13. Uncle Marcus was going to help with training? Elorie looked around for flying pigs.

Debora Geary

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

Wilhelm II

#15. 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.

Wilhelm II

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

Wilhelm II

#17. But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared

Orson Scott Card

#18. Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. This was as true of the inquisitors of the medieval church, of the cruel and mystical Philip II of Spain, as it is of any modern mass murderer.

Wilhelm Reich

#19. 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.

Wilhelm II

#20. I go where Al goes, dances-with-bugs. And just so you know, if anything happens to her, I'll pin you by your wings to a corkboard and use you for dart practice.

A.G. Howard

#21. I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

Todd Tiahrt

#22. UNDAUNTED PURSUIT
Success, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience

Kamil Ali

#23. 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.

Wilhelm II

#24. 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.

Wilhelm II