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Quotes About Germany

The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Stonewall" has come to mark the origins of gay political activism although earlier groups in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the French movement that grew out of the May 1968 events cannot be ignored.
~ Chantal Zabus
In referring to the Führer's military acumen, he referred to him as a "dilettante" and quipped that Germany's defeat on the eastern front was due to too many Russians and one German too many.
~ Charles F. Marshall
The French are the greatest cuckolds to be found in the world. There is unquestionably less cuckoldry in Germany.
~ Charles Fourier
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
~ Graham Taylor
Farewell, false love, I took you for The woman that I lost last year Forever as I think: I loved her but I will not see Her any more in Germany. O Milky Way, sister in whiteness To Canaan's rivers and the bright Bodies of lovers drowned, Can we follow toilsomely Your path to other nebulae?
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
After Germany he would have to change direction and re-evaluate his ideals and accept that success would come in accordance with the quality and dynamic of the group of players he worked with.
~ Guillem Balagué
It's a seminal moment in the history of Germany and Europe. Stopping at the Elbe is not a normal military-political decision; it's one dictated by higher powers. Crossing the Rhine is fine; but the Elbe marks the end of reasonable ambition.
~ James Hawes
Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that if they had their war, their people might refuse to fight it.
~ James Hawes
Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together, I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open and I bolted upright. What? Fang said, his voice icy. Gazzy! I yelled. Wide blue eyes looked at me in surprise, then back at Fang's stoic face. Oh. Was I not supposed to say anything? Gazzy asked.
~ James Patterson
Uh, a honking big castle of evil in Germany?
~ James Patterson
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.
~ James F. Byrnes
We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.
~ James F. Byrnes
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
~ Franz von Papen
Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.
~ Marek Belka
We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.
~ Angela Merkel
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
~ P. Chidambaram
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
~ Joschka Fischer
Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and others.
~ Helmut Schmidt
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.
~ Alice Hamilton
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
~ Friedrich Ebert
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.
~ Helmut Kohl