In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.