A sacred duty is imposed by Heaven on us Christian Kings and Emperors—to uphold the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. - Emil Ludwig

So in this matter also he attributed his own perfidy to others, vindicating thus his own political propensities.

His extreme vanity soon led him to imagine that he was really among the most remarkable of men.

His effect, in complete contrast to Mussolini's... he juggles with mystical notions such as Honor, Blood, and Soil, and thus wraps his audience in that cloud of mysticism which the Germans love far more than mere prosaic logic.