Germany quotes

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.Go home and have a nice, quiet sleep. See also Disraeli 277:85.

- (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
  Speech from the window of No.10 Downing Street to the crowds outside, 30 Sep, having returned that day from signing the Munich  Agreement. The earlier peace referred to was the Treaty of Berlin which Beaconsfield brought back in1878.

This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we heard from them by11o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

- (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
  Radio broadcast, 3 Sep.

   In1914, Europe had arrived at a point at which every country except Germany was afraid of the present, and Germany was afraid of the future.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  House of Lords, 24  Jul.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  In the Observer, 8  Apr.

We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny.Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.

-Theodore Roosevelt
  Speech at Oyster Bay, Long Island, Apr.

En France, on e  tudie les hommes; en Allemagne, les livres. In France, they study men; in Germany, books.

- Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stae«  l
  De l'Allemagne.

Communism fits Germany as a saddle fits a cow.

-Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin
  In conversation with the Polish politician, Stanislaw Mikolajcik, Aug.