God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and already that godliness is that, which lets us love and foster peace.

So clobbeth the Poles so that they despair; they have my deepest sympathy for their situation, but, if we want to exist, we have no choice but to wipe them out; the wolf cannot help it that he was created by God the way he is, but one shoots him yet, if one can. Letter to his sister Malwine (March 1861).