Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.