Affair Quote by Anthony Trollope

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that…

— Theodor Herzl

“Bismarck defined political intuition as the ability to hear, before anybody else, “the distant hoofbeats of history.”

— Michael Dobbs

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development,…

— Alfred Jodl

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.…

— H.G. Wells

“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

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William…

— Kelly Miller

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions…

— Hjalmar Schacht

“Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.”

— Henry Kissinger

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

— John Amery

World has become a global village, but no one knows the other.

— Tasneem Hameed

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden…

— Alan Moore

It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the…

— Enoch Powell