Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future.

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

— Gustav Heinemann

The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe…

— Walter Kasper

“The Sicilian language is the only one in Europe that has no future tense. The island’s bitter legacy of conquest and revolt seems to…

— Leonardo Sciascia

If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.

— Frans Timmermans

And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who…

— Andrzej Szczypiorski

It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the…

— Jacques Santer

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the…

— Wilhelm Keitel

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

— Helmut Kohl

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

— Helmut Kohl

I ask myself where Germany stands today and where it wants to go.

— Helmut Kohl

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I…

— Timothy Garton Ash

24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once…

— Will Hutton

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in,…

— Gustav Stresemann

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel