Germany Quotes

• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Successful

  Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922

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

  Graham Coxon

  Munich, Berlin, Empty

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

  Hans Frank

  War, Years, Holocaust

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

  Gustav Heinemann

  Difficult, Fatherland

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

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  Party, Austria, Pumpkin

  Speech in Berlin on April 07, 1938. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.

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• Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

  Klaus Fuchs

  War, Russia, Risk

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

  Boris Kodjoe

  Firsts, Heard

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• I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Culture, Tvs, Film

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• The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

  Method Man

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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.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Numbers, France

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

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, War, Grew Up

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• Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Speak, Saddles

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• The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Usa, Want

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times, April 9, 1944.

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

  Ernst Rohm

  Destiny, History, Nazism

  Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

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• ... 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.

  Franz Halder

  Military, Historical, Empires

  Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

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• I was in the underground until I left Germany.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Left

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• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Cancer, Cutting

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  James A. Michener

  Country, Russia, Expression

  "A Spelunker in the Caves of History". "Modern Maturity" Magazine, August 1985.

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• whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, German Language

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

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

  Donella Meadows

  Cutting, Netherlands, Denmark

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• The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Struggle, Fighting, Japan

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

  Alexander Woollcott

  Cities, Chicago, Causes

  Radio broadcast, 23 Jan. 1943.Woollcott's last words before the microphone.

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• Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, People, My Family

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