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War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state…. What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

— Heinrich von Treitschke

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Those who preach the nonsense of eternal peace do not understand Aryan national life.

The enlargement of Prussian power is little by little becoming a demand of justice.

Statement (1869)

A thousand touching traits testify to the sacred power of the love which a righteous war awakes in noble nations.

God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race.

All treaties between nations are valid only with the reservation clause: rebus sic stantibus. They do not pledge a State for ever.

Statement (1869)

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