#german

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. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#bombed #britain #continental #derived #distrust

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#good #got #instead #looking #shepherd

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

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #ends #fascism #fighting #germany

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

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature

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

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cars #chinese #clear #electronics #germans

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther