The Emperor and his Chancellor can make Germany do exactly what they choose, and if the Chancellor does not agree with the Emperor, the Emperor can appoint one who does.

That is what it comes to; that is why he is as vast as Germany itself.

The Reichstag but advises where he is concerned.
Have you no imagination, Michael?
Europe lies in the hand that shook yours." Michael laughed.
"I suppose I must have no imagination," he said.

"I don't picture it even now when you point it out." Falbe pointed an impressive forefinger.
"But for him," he said, "England and Germany would have been at each other's throats over the business at Agadir.

He held the warhounds in leash--he, their master, who made them." "Oh, he made them, anyhow," said Michael.
"Naturally.