“ There is one sure way of definitely limiting the power for ill of Germany, and that is the distruction of Austria-Hungary and thereby of the Central European bloc; if we wish to strike Germany for our purposes in a vital spot, we must strike at Austria-Hungary. ”

“ It is her last marriage, and nothing but death will dissolve it.” . . .
“Too long have we consented in thought and policy to the delusion that Europe outside the west was the natural inheritance of three autocratic royal houses, the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, the Romanoffs. One of these lies prostrate, flung down by the people’s mere breath. It will be a happy day when the older dynasties of Austria and Brandenburg fall beside it.” ”