#germany

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

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

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#always #believe #certain #china #deal

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

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#allowed #believed #complete #confidence #death

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#allowed #believed #complete #confidence #death

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#because #began #found #germany #i

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#bear #before #costs #expected #germany

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#agreed #agreement #germany #greater #potsdam

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#american people #ceased #germany #hard #long