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Helmuth von Moltke the Younger Quotes

1848–1916 Germany

Helmuth Johannes Ludwig Graf von Moltke (25 May 1848 – 18 June 1916), also known as Moltke the Younger, was a German general who served as the Chief of the German General Staff from 1906 to 1914. He was a nephew of Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke who is commonly called "Moltke the Elder" to differentiate the two.

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

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

We are ready [for war], and the sooner it comes, the better for us.

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.

Letter to his wife during the Agadir Crisis (1911)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.