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The ghost of socialism is beginning to show a very earnest face ... the Zentrum is a gang of hypocritical blackguards without a Fatherland, intent on the collapse of Germany and the destruction of Prussia.

— Alfred von Waldersee

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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.

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