It was he and no other who aimed to turn defensive Germany into aggressive Germany.

He has been the author from the beginning of the entire naval programme.
Such a plan must take cunning and strategy covering years.

It must proclaim peace to the world but rouse all the fighting blood of the German-speaking race.

The spirit for world-conquest must be stimulated in all literature and art, in education, and commerce; with the individual and the family.

The danger of Germany must be pointed out.
The greatness and rightfulness of her ambitions in the world must be brought forward and educated into the blood of every growing German.
While to the outside world steadily proclaiming peace, the Kaiser was as steadily inculcating war and the principles of war into every avenue of German thought and philosophy.
The Germans are nothing if not logical and scientific.