Generations of military service are responsible for it.
Discipline and combination--that might be their motto.

Individual thought has been drilled into grooves, just as all individual effort is specialised.

The Germans obey because it is their nature to obey.

The only question is whether they will stand this, the roughest test they have ever had--whether they'll see the thing through." "Personally, I think they will," Hannaway Wells pronounced, "but if I should be wrong--if they shouldn't--the French Revolution would be a picnic compared with the German one.

It takes a great deal to drive a national idea out of the German mind, but if ever they should understand precisely and exactly how they have been duped for the glorification of their masters--well, I should pity the junkers." "Do your essays in journalism," the Bishop asked politely, "ever lead you to touch upon Labour subjects, Julian ?" "Once or twice, in a very mild way," was the somewhat diffident reply.
"I had an interesting talk with Furley this morning," the Prime Minister observed.