Gustav Stresemann Quotes

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• To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual…
• I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept…
• The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility…
• Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of…
• Mankind advances only through struggle.
• In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire…
• A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
• A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the…
• As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather,…
• 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, a…
• As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its…
• The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
• If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it…
• The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
• The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty…
• But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change…
• For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the…
• Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken…
• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for…

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