Essential for defense, and for protection,- an organ in which everything necessary for the stratagems of retreat, or the offensives of attack, are supplied ad libitum, while everything non-essential or detrimental to the matter of the moment is inhibited, arrested and suppressed-no more perfect sample of the design with which Life is drenched could be imagined by the most closeted of passionate idealists.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
He also believes that, after the expected failure of their present offensives, our enemies will be ready to open peace negotiations.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
Such isolated, misleading views as this do not, however, succeed in affecting in any way the general impression that by far the greater part of the leading newspapers regard the war as indecisive, especially after the fruitless conclusion of our operations before Verdun, the collapse of the great offensives on the Somme and in southern Galicia, as well as in view of the fact, confirmed on many sides, that the British blockade has not attained its end, the starvation of Germany.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff