Wilhelm II Quotes

• Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

  Wilhelm II

  Funny, Kings, Women

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• It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

  Wilhelm II

  Army, Decision, Soldier

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• A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

  Wilhelm II

  Regret, Russia, Bankers

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• We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.

  Wilhelm II

  Lying, Water, Sun

  Speech in Hamburg, June 18, 1901.

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• 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.

  Wilhelm II

  Crush, War, Believe

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• Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

  Wilhelm II

  Lunch, Paris, Dinner

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• For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Firsts, Shame, First Time

  Remark in November 1938 in regard to Adolf Hitler's Kristallnacht. "Our German Cousins: Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries" by John Mander, p. 219, 1974.

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• Woe and death to all who resist my will!

  Wilhelm II

  Woe

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• Germany must have her place in the sun.

  Wilhelm II

  Germany, Sun, Possession

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• Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

  Wilhelm II

  Powerful, Citizens, World

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

  Wilhelm II

  Views, Goes On, Way

  Speech at Koenigsberg on August 25, 1910. "The Kaiser and His Times". Book by Michael Balfour, p. 157, 1975.

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• 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.

  Wilhelm II

  Men, Insults You, Mad

  Remark to the Daily Telegraph. "The Growth of Nationalism: Germany and Italy 1815-1939". Book by Ronald Cameron, Charles Robertson, and Christine Henderson, 1992.

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

  Wilhelm II

  Military, Home, Tree

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• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Fall, Taken

  "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.

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• Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have vowed to God, following the example of my father, to be a righteous and gentle prince, to foster piety and the fear of God, to maintain peace, to further the welfare of the country, to be a help to the poor and oppressed, and to be to the righteous man a true protector.

  Wilhelm II

  Country, Kings, Father

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• The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

  Wilhelm II

  Weakness, Function, Treachery

  "Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy". Book by Harold Nicolson, p. 214, 1930.

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• I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.

  Wilhelm II

  Believe, Men, Years

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• England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.

  Wilhelm II

  Christian, Lying, Turkeys

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

  Wilhelm II

  Food, Cooking, Germany

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• Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.

  Wilhelm II

  War, Distance, Ocean

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• Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Men, Years

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