I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

- Manfred von Richthofen

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

- Manfred von Richthofen

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

- Manfred von Richthofen