The German Empire, far from being a danger to other States, will be respected and trusted by the nations, and will remain as heretofore a mainstay of… - Wilhelm II

Arise, to arms! All hesitation, all delay is treason to the country. It is a question of the life or death of our Empire, of the life or death of German Might. We shall defend ourselves to the last breath and to the last man. Though a world of enemies come, we shall fight notwithstanding. When Germany has remained united, she has never been vanquished. Forward with God, for God will be with us as He was with our fathers.

Under the much-used word freedom, and under its banner, artists often degenerate into monstrosity and exaggeration and conceit.

Imagine a monarch, holding personal command of his army, disbanding his regiments, sacred with a hundred years of history—and handing his towns over to Anarchists and Democracy.