Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Politik. Memoiren 1892-1916. München, Bruckmann, 1926, Band 2, Seite 18.
Bekannter als: "In ganz Europa gehen die Lichter aus; wir alle werden sie in unserem Leben nie wieder leuchten sehen." - nach Hans Erich Stier: Deutsche Geschichte - im Rahmen der Weltgeschichte. 1959. S. 898 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=wSvTAAAAMAAJ&dq=lichter.
Siehe auch Ludwig Reiners: In Europa gehen die Lichter aus. Der Untergang des wilhelminischen Reiches. München, C.H. Beck, 1954
Original engl.: "A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below on which we were looking. My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, 'The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.'" - Edward Grey: Twenty-Five Years 1892-1916, Vol. 2. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1925. Kapitel 18, S. 20 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=d68gSzbih8QC&q=lit.