#german

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#also #among #assets #distribution #foreign

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#athlete #east #first #germany #go

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

— King Charles V

#german #god #horse #i #italian

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#anything #century #condemned #draw #each

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. ↗

— George Foreman

#dogs #fly #german #germany #i

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. ↗

— Hans Frank

#advisory #also #background #committees #fading

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#before #care #collaborate #compete #connect

I was in the underground until I left Germany. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#i #left #underground #until