Bernhard von Bülow

"You have given carte blanche – do you realize what you have done? If the late Prince Bismarck could appear here before you, his first words would be: "How could you do such a thing, how could you tran…"

"through the ineptitude and stupidity of Bethmann and Jagow blundered into war ."

"The Auswärtiges Amt of 1914 was the incubator in which the monstrous egg of the ultimatum to Serbia was hatched. This where almost all the terrible mistakes were made through which we came to be invol…"

"What does their hate matter to us? ... Oderint dum metuant! Let them hate us, but let them fear us!"

"We ourselves brought about through the ultimatum to Serbia ."

"But they did not want to listen and this nice fellow Bethmann, who has no inkling of the world out there, this miserable Jagow who tries to get by on malicious little tricks and has never even seen Fr…"