The role of outraged dignity is always the most pleasing one and justifies all ulterior resolutions, however extreme they may seem.

There are some of our people who are living comfortably and do not desire war.

It is expedient to make them believe that those who impose it upon us are our enemies so that they may feel the necessity of defending themselves.

Only superior minds reach the conviction of the great advancement that can be accomplished by the sword alone, and that war, as our grand Treitschke says, is the highest form of progress." Again he smiled with a ferocious expression.

Morality, from his point of view, should exist among individuals only to make them more obedient and disciplined, for morality per se impedes governments and should be suppressed as a useless obstacle.