And Germany?
Who there has ever raised a protest in order to defend human rights?
What revolutions have ever broken out in Prussia, the land of the great despots?
"Frederick William, the founder of militarism, when he was tired of beating his wife and spitting in his children's plates, used to sally forth, thong in hand, in order to cowhide those subjects who did not get out of his way in time.

His son, Frederick the Great, declared that he died, bored to death with governing a nation of slaves.

In two centuries of Prussian history, one single revolution--the barricades of 1848--a bad Berlinish copy of the Paris revolution, and without any result.
Bismarck corrected with a heavy hand so as to crush completely the last attempts at protest--if such ever really existed.

And when his friends were threatening him with revolution, the ferocious Junker, merely put his hands on his hips and roared with the most insolent of horse laughs.
A revolution in Prussia!.

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