Quotes from Wilhelm II

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

Woe and death to all who resist my will!

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.