Agreed, reject... This is the end of negotiations with America, once and for all! If Wilson wants war, let him provoke it and then have it.

Minute in response to a memorandum by Henning von Holtzendorff (18 March 1917), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 306, n. 3.