R. C. Lehmann

“ Such a burden must no longer be placed only upon your back, for there are others whose bones are young and who are willing share it with you. Why should we be compelled to sit still or merely to bear our back with fists while you, dear Father, undergo these too terrible fatigues? ”

“ You must remember that you are not so young as you were and that this rushing to and fro between France and Poland, which to a man of my age would be a mere trifle, bringing with it only enjoyment, must be for a man who is between fifty and sixty a task well calculated to search out and expose his corporeally weak points so as to bring satisfaction, not to us, but to the enemy. ”

“ Still we have it now under our our thumb (unter unserem Daumen) , and even the Socialists are ready to feed out of our hands and to allow us to kick them about the floor. He who says that war is barbarous and useless can learn by this example that it is not so. If youwish me to invite one or two Socialists (not more) to a State dinner I will even go so far as that. ”