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Alfred von Waldersee Quotes

1832–1904 Germany

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee (8 April 1832 – 5 March 1904) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) who became Chief of the Imperial German General Staff.

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Never before has a ruler been so beloved by his own people, so highly esteemed by the whole world.

Bismarck is the king's last mistress because only such a creature could have such power over an old man.

It is really a good thing that the English should be unmasked at last and that the world should see what miserable hypocrites they are.

The unequal distribution of wealth with all its consequences must lead in the end to a catastrophe.

What he is most lacking in are fixed aims and the faculty of persisting in the line he has taken up.

There can be no doubt as to the measureless shamelessness of the English in combating our really modest colonial efforts.

Either we are tremendously clever or the French strategists dreadful bunglers.

If China revives again we could not wage war with her by ourselves.

Prince Wilhelm justifies our very best hopes for the future. He will grow into the right man to maintaain Germany's power–perhaps to increase it.

Germany is the foundation for the mainstay for the whole of Europe, but if we become weak, the entire old world will fall apart.

I pray to God that I may not have to live through what I see coming.

Too many people are under the influence of the Jews.

The Kaiser can be very friendly in his manner but he is utterly lacking in genuine goodwill. For this reason he will win no lasting affection.

We and the English are and must remain natural opponents. The world out to be big enough for both of us, but English covetousness oversteps all possible limits.

Prince Wilhelm has taken up an attitude strongly against England, a quite natural reaction for the most part against the efforts of his mother to make Anglomaniacs of her children.

The Kaiser ... is not the right man to lead the Fatherland out of the many perils which threaten it.

“How I despise the liberal gang that has captured the Chamber! They are prisoners of their own verbose unrealism, and are setting the country back further from year to year.

In the cavalry sons of industrialists who have got rich quickly are pushing their way in and are ruining its simple customs.

He wants to be his own Chief of Staff. God help our country!

A good many men will be killed, however, as long as no man can prove to me that a man can die more than once, I am not inclined to regard death for the individual as a misfortune.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred von Waldersee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.