In one department we wear a robe of white and a halo of innocence.

Long and weary as may be the records of our wickedness, in one direction we have done nothing but good.

Whoever we may have wronged, we have never wronged Germany.

Again and again we have dragged her from under the just vengeance of her enemies, from the holy anger of Maria Teresa, from the impatient and contemptuous common sense of Napoleon.

We have kept a ring fence around the Germans while they sacked Denmark and dismembered France.