You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.

Germany must have her place in the sun.