“Where my Guards appear, there is no room for democracy.”

— Wilhelm II, German Emperor

Speech to representatives of German political parties (20 July 1917), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), pp. 379-380
1910s

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