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

— Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

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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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