The phlegmatic German is not particular whom he hangs.

In that wide domain there is always some petty revolution going on.

In each of those petty kingdoms, or principalities, or duchies, there are miniature Rousseaus and Voltaires who shout liberty and equality in beer halls and rouse the otherwise peaceful citizens to warfare; short, it is true, but none the less warfare.

Military despotism is the tocsin.

When the King presses an unwilling subject into the army, upon his discharge the unwilling subject, usually a peasant, becomes a socialist.