The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.


Speech (18 April 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158.

Wilhelm II Quotes

The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.