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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

    Author: Alain Prost
   

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

    Author: Albert Speer
   

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

    Author: Albert Speer
   

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

    Author: Albert Speer
   

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

    Author: Alfred Rosenberg
   

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

    Author: Ann Coulter
   

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

    Author: Anthony Anderson
   

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

    Author: Anton Rubinstein
   

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

    Author: Anton Seidl
   

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

    Author: Arthur Keith
   

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

    Author: Bernhard Langer
   

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

    Author: Bernhard von Bulow
   

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.

    Author: Bernhard von Bulow
   

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

    Author: Bette Midler
   

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

    Author: Bobby Jindal
   

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

    Author: Brian Ferneyhough
   

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

    Author: Brian Ferneyhough
   

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

    Author: Brian Lumley
   

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

    Author: Cecilia Bartoli
   

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

    Author: Charles V
   

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

    Author: Clark Kerr
   

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

    Author: Clifton Fadiman
   

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

    Author: Conrad Veidt
   

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

    Author: Cornelia Funke
   

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

    Author: Cornelia Funke
   

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

    Author: David Letterman
   

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

    Author: Diane Kruger
   

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.

    Author: Dixie Dean
   

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

    Author: Edward Carpenter
   

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

    Author: Edward Sapir
   

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

    Author: Edwin Moses
   

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

    Author: Elliott Carter
   

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

    Author: Emo Philips
   

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

    Author: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
   

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

    Author: Ernst Toller
   

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

    Author: Ernst Zundel
   

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

    Author: Ernst Zundel
   

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

    Author: Franz Grillparzer
   

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

    Author: Fredrik Bajer
   

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

    Author: Fritz Sauckel
   

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

    Author: Fritz Sauckel
   

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

    Author: Fritz Sauckel
   

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

    Author: Fritz Sauckel
   

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

    Author: Fritz Sauckel
   

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

    Author: Fritz Todt
   

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

    Author: Galeazzo Ciano
   

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

    Author: Georg Baselitz
   

We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

    Author: George Creel
   

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

    Author: George Grosz
   

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

    Author: George William Norris
   

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

    Author: Gerard Debreu
   

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

    Author: Gerd von Rundstedt
   

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

    Author: Gerhard Schroeder
   

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

    Author: Gilbert White
   

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

    Author: Gordon Sinclair
   

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

    Author: Gordon Sinclair
   

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

    Author: Gustav Krupp
   

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.

    Author: Gustav Krupp
   

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

    Author: Gustav Krupp
   

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

    Author: Hans Frank
   

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

    Author: Hans Frank
   

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

    Author: Hans Frank
   

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

    Author: Hans Frank
   

The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

    Author: Hans Frank
   

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

    Author: Heinrich Himmler
   

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

    Author: Helmut Jahn
   

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

    Author: Helmut Kohl
   

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

    Author: Henry A. Wallace
   

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

    Author: Hermann Goering
   

The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.

    Author: Hjalmar Schacht
   

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.

    Author: Horst Koehler
   

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

    Author: Issey Miyake
   

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

    Author: Jack Steinberger
   

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

    Author: James F. Byrnes
   

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

    Author: James Laughlin
   

After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.

    Author: James Meade
   

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

    Author: James Stockdale
   

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

    Author: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
   

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

    Author: Jean-Marie Le Pen
   

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

    Author: Jean-Marie Le Pen
   

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Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

    Author: Alan Cranston
   

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

    Author: Alexander Woollcott
   

My greetings to you, my Germany.

    Author: Alfred Jodl
   

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

    Author: Alfred Jodl
   

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

    Author: Alfred Rosenberg
   

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

    Author: Alice Hamilton
   

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

    Author: Anselm Kiefer
   

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.

    Author: Arthur H. Sulzberger
   

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

    Author: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
   

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

    Author: Bernhard Langer
   

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

    Author: Bernhard von Bulow
   

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

    Author: Bernhard von Bulow
   

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

    Author: Bernhard von Bulow
   

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

    Author: Bill Toomey
   

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

    Author: Boris Becker
   

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

    Author: Boris Kodjoe
   

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

    Author: Boutros Boutros-Ghali
   

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

    Author: Brent Scowcroft
   

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

    Author: Brian Mulroney
   

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

    Author: C. L. R. James
   

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

    Author: Carroll Quigley
   

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

    Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
   

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

    Author: Charles Guggenheim
   

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.

    Author: Christo
   

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.

    Author: David Clennon
   

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

    Author: David Kay
   

I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

    Author: Diana Krall
   

We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.

    Author: Dixie Dean
   

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

    Author: Dominic Monaghan
   

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

    Author: Donald Rumsfeld
   

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

    Author: Donella Meadows
   

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

    Author: E. P. Thompson
   

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

    Author: Eduard Shevardnadze
   

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

    Author: Eduard Shevardnadze
   

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

    Author: Edward Grey
   

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

    Author: Emanuel Celler
   

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

    Author: Emily Greene Balch
   

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

    Author: Eric Carle
   

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

    Author: Ernie Pyle
   

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

    Author: Ernst Rohm
   

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

    Author: Ernst Toller
   

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

    Author: Ernst Toller
   

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

    Author: Ernst Zundel
   

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

    Author: Ernst Zundel
   

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

    Author: Fay Godwin
   

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

    Author: Ferdinand Lassalle
   

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

    Author: Francois Mauriac
   

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

    Author: Frank Carlucci
   

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

    Author: Franz Beckenbauer
   

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

    Author: Franz Halder
   

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

    Author: Franz von Papen
   

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

    Author: Frederic William Farrar
   

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

    Author: Friedrich Ebert
   

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

    Author: Friedrich List
   

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

    Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
   

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

    Author: George J. Mitchell
   

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

    Author: George Orwell
   

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

    Author: George Santayana
   

We ought to disarm Germany completely.

    Author: George William Norris
   

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.

    Author: Gerald Scarfe
   

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

    Author: Gerhard Schroder
   

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

    Author: Gerhard Schroder
   

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

    Author: Gerhard Schroder
   

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

    Author: Gertrude Stein
   

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

    Author: Gordon Sinclair
   

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

    Author: Gordon Sinclair
   

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

    Author: Graham Chapman
   

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

    Author: Graham Coxon
   

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

    Author: Gustav Heinemann
   

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

    Author: Gustav Krupp
   

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

    Author: Gustav Stresemann
   

In Germany I am not so famous.

    Author: Hans Berger
   

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

    Author: Hans Frank
   

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

    Author: Harry Houdini
   

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

    Author: Heidi Klum
   

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

    Author: Heinrich Himmler
   

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

    Author: Heinrich Himmler
   

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.

    Author: Heinrich Himmler
   

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.

    Author: Heinrich Himmler
   

Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

    Author: Heinrich Himmler
   

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

    Author: Helmut Kohl
   

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

    Author: Helmut Kohl
   

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

    Author: Helmut Kohl
   

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