Wilhelm II

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

— Wilhelm II

Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

— Wilhelm II

Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into…

— Wilhelm II

Germany must have her place in the sun.

— Wilhelm II

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

— Wilhelm II

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

— Wilhelm II

A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of…

— Wilhelm II

I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and…

— Wilhelm II

I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great…

— Wilhelm II

England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc.…

— Wilhelm II

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have…

— Wilhelm II

You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such…

— Wilhelm II

Woe and death to all who resist my will!

— Wilhelm II

Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as…

— Wilhelm II

Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you…

— Wilhelm II

Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance,…

— Wilhelm II

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this…

— Wilhelm II

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

— Wilhelm II

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

— Wilhelm II

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

— Wilhelm II