My people must aid me in my duties, not by angry speeches or by the unreasonable opposition of political parties, but by explaining their difficultie… - Wilhelm II

Sculpture has still for the most part remained untouched by the so-called modern tendencies and movements. It still stands there, noble and sublime.

I repudiate these attacks on him...a German of the Germans...his honour so assailed. Who made this infamous attack upon our friend? Men who till now have been looked upon as Germans, but who henceforth are unworthy of that name. And these men come from the Reich's working classes, who owe so infinite a debt of gratitude to Krupp!

I, too, like my imperial grandfather, represent the kingship by God's grace. My grandfather believed that the functions of the king were a task given to him by God, a task to which it was his duty to devote his strength up to the last moment of his life. What he thought I also think.