Gustav Stresemann Quotes

• The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Volcanoes, Dancing, Germany

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• Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Ideas, Two, Encounters

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• Mankind advances only through struggle.

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  Struggle, Mankind

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• In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

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  Memories, Hero, Struggle

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• The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

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  Errors, Victory, Obstacles

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• 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.

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  Children, Father, Greatness

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• To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Stupid, Opposites, Two

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• The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

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  Men, Mankind, Reach Out

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• 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.

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  War, Thinking, Order

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• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Change, Determination, Party

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• Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Taken, Outcomes, Youth

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• Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

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  Children, Father, Men

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• 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.

  Gustav Stresemann

  War, Loss, Territory

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

  Gustav Stresemann

  People, Soil, Offers

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• For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

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  Peace, Mean, Position Of Power

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

  Gustav Stresemann

  Past, Years, Battle

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• The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

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  Beauty, Taken, Past

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• To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

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  Giving, Envy, Together

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• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

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  Peace, Europe, Voice

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• 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.

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  Reality, People, Mind

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• History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

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  Men, Different, Use

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• But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

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  Change, Typical, Haste

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• The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Action, Shows, Nations

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• 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.

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  Army, Class, Germany

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• 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.

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  Greatness, Germany, Shapes

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