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Page 23 - When you meet the foe you will defeat him. No quarter will be given, no prisoners will be taken. Let all who fall into your hands be at your mercy.. .Just as the Huns a thousand years ago, under the leadership of...
Page 23 - When you meet the foe you will defeat them. No quarter will be given ; no prisoners will be taken. Let all who fall into your mercy be at your mercy. Just as the Huns a thousand years ago, under the leadership of Attila, gained a reputation in virtue of which they still live in historical tradition, so may the name of Germany become known in such a manner in China that no Chinaman will ever again dare to look askance at a German.
Page vi - Bequest, achievement, saving, disappears In blood and tears. In widowed woe That slum and palace equal know, In civilization's suicide — What served thereby, what satisfied ? For justice, freedom, right, what wrought? Naught ! — Save, after the great cataclysm, perhap On the world's shaken map New lines, more near or far, Binding to king or czar In festering hate Some newly vassaled state ; And passion, lust, and pride, made satiate ; And just a trace Of lingering smile on Satan's face ! xvii...
Page 183 - We have but one and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one We have one foe and one alone — England!
Page v - twere come — Now, while each bourse and shop and mill is dumb, And arsenals and dockyards hum — Now all complete, supreme, That vast, Satanic dream! Each field were trampled, soaked, Each stream dyed, choked, Each leaguered city and blockaded port Made famine's sport; The empty wave Made reeling...
Page 151 - I do not advise you to compromise and make peace, but to conquer. Let your labor be fighting, and your peace victory. . . . What is good? All that increases the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Page 183 - To the Day!" Whose glass this fate? They had all but a single hate. Who was thus known? They had one foe and one alone — ENGLAND! Take you the folk of the Earth in pay, With bars of gold your ramparts lay, Bedeck the ocean with bow on bow, Ye reckon well, but not well enough now. French and Russian they matter not, A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot, We fight the battle with bronze and steel, And the time that is coming Peace will seal. You...
Page 182 - But what avail the plow or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ?" The government and the destinies of a great people should always be kept in their own hands.
Page 174 - American motor car companies, all American tobacco interests, and, in fact, all foreign companies are boycotted, or barred, or worked against throughout Germany. Placards in shop windows say, ' Don't buy foreign goods. Keep the money in Germany.
Page 155 - What is good? All that increases the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases, that resistance is being overcome.