"Revolution in India and Egypt, and also in the Caucuses...is of the highest importance. The treaty with Turkey will make it possible for the Foreign Office to realise this idea and to awaken the fanaticism of Islam."

“a question of life or death for us. We shall stop at nothing to gain our end. In the struggle for existence, one does not bother about the means one employs.”

“It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated.”

“If we again slink out of this affair with our tail between our legs, if we cannot pull ourselves together to present demands which we are prepared to enforce by the sword, then I despair of the future of the German Reich.”

“One should not comment on the actual motivating factor of the whole expedition, for if we were completely honest it is greed which has encouraged us to cut into the big Chinese cake. We wanted to earn money, build railways, run mines, bring European culture, that means in one word, earn money. In this we are not an ounce better than the English in the Transvaal.”

“We are ready , and the sooner it comes, the better for us.”

“The moment Russia mobilizes, Germany also will mobilize, and will unquestionably mobilize her whole army.”