↑ Washausen, Hamburg und die Kolonialpolitik des Deutschen Reiches, p. 21; in this effort and conjointly with his firm rejection of taking over the French colonial possessions after the Franco-Prussian war, Bismarck in February 1871 characterised a German acquisition of colonies as equivalent to the Polish nobility wearing silks and furs when they needed shirts.
↑ Reichstag deputy Friedrich Kapp stated in debate in 1878 that whenever there is talk of "colonization," he would recommend to keep pocketbooks out of sight, "even if the proposal is for the acquisition of paradise." [Washausen, p. 58]
↑ Taylor, Bismarck. The Man and the Statesman, p. 215
