War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.