You can change your mind at any time.

A reply like this commits you to nothing, whereas your abrupt refusal will only widen the breach." "The wider the breach the better." "No, no, your Highness; the past has disturbed you.

We can stand war, and it is possible that we might win, even against Jugendheit; but war at this late day would be a colossal blunder.

Victory would leave us where we began thirty years ago.

One does not go to war for a cause that has been practically dead these sixteen years.