"Our motto is 'from Hamburg to the Persian gulf.'"--PROFESSOR
TANNEMANN.
"In this Pan-German Empire, Germans alone will govern; they alone
will exercise political rights; they alone will serve in the army
and navy; they alone will have the right to hold land; and they
will thus be made to feel that they are a people of rulers, as
they were in the Middle Ages. They will, however, allow inferior
tasks to be carried out by the foreign subjects under their
domination."--"_Gross Deutschland und Mitteleuropa um das Jahr
1950_," p. 48.
"Why should we make paltry excuses? Yes, we brought on this war,
and we are glad of it. We provoked it, because we were sure of
winning."
MAXIMILIAN HARDIN,
In _Zukunft_, Aug. 20, 1914.
"After this war is over, I will stand no nonsense from the United
States."--_The Kaiser's threat to Ambassador Gerard._