Action Quote by Anthony Eden

The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a…

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged…

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right…

— Friedrich Engels

“None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life—a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began…

— James L. Stokesbury

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has…

— Marie Antoinette

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right…

— Friedrich Engels

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at…

— Anthony Trollope

Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there.…

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“Suddenly his face twisted into a sneer. ‘Oh, I can see what you’re thinking, Hartmann. “What a vulgar fellow! A car salesman! And now…

— Robert Harris

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

— Gustav Stresemann

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Margaret Thatcher and John Major knew that bluff and bravado doesn't work in Brussels.

— Kenneth Clarke