"We are not and don't feel like Imperial and Royal subjects, but as republican-minded American citizens of German birth."

"He who puts (in viewing the most recent history of Germany) the main emphasis on princely and other "high" personalities; who, like an humbly obedient slave, trembles in his boots when an independently-thinking German-American like Herr Hesing boldly tries on the mysterious veil that the German military and civil bureaucracy uses to cover all those faults and evils which we are used to expose to the public in American - such a man should better emigrate to Germany because he will surely make an excellent Imperial and Royal subject, but to be a free citizen of a republic he is not qualified."